![]() ![]() Mr Bayliss, 62, said: ' It has made me feel so much better and I'm not in pain anymore. Now the electrical engineer is on the road to recovery at the Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham. He said it works by drawing water away from the wound, as water is needed for bacteria to multiply. Moses Murandu applied a whole pot of sugar at first, but was down to five teaspoons two weeks later. Nurses contacted Mr Murandu and Mr Bayliss was given the sugar treatment and within two weeks the wound had drastically reduced in size. He underwent an above the knee amputation on his right leg due to an ulcer at the Queen Elizabeth (QE) Hospital Birmingham in January 2013, and as part of the surgery a vein was removed from his left leg.įor his post-surgery rehabilitation, Mr Bayliss was moved to Moseley Hall Hospital where standard dressings were used but the left leg cavity wound was not healing effectively. ![]() One of the patients receiving treatment as part of the research is Alan Bayliss, from Birmingham, who was being treated at Moseley Hall Hospital’s amputee rehabilitation ward. When Mr Murandu moved to the UK he realised that sugar was not recognised as a traditional medicine that had something to offer. Sugar draws water from the wound into a dressing - bacteria needs water to survive - which allows accelerates the healing process, or kick starts it where progress has stalled. ![]() The study is headed by Moses Murandu, a senior lecturer in adult nursing at Wolverhampton University, who grew up in Zimbabwe where his father used sugar to heal wounds and reduce pain when he was a child. The traditional remedy was suggested by Moses Murandu (left) for treating Alan Bayliss (right) According to the study, sugar draws water from the wound into a dressing accelerating the healing process. ![]()
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