Back in 2018, the UK Department of Health added an article on honey to its guidelines for treating infectious diseases. In it, its effectiveness was recognized even higher than that of antibiotics. And two years later, Oxford University confirmed this with a major study.
A bit of background
The benefits of honey and its effectiveness in treating colds have been known for a long time. Sweet tart taste, calorie content, high sensitivity of bees to chemicals makes this product not only a pleasant addition to tea, but also environmentally friendly, which is especially appreciated in the modern world. The only serious negative is a possible allergy to honey.
People often use honey to fight colds. The fact is that formally there are practically no drugs for this type of disease. Most of them simply “silence” the symptoms, and do not specifically fight the foci of infection. The main job here goes to the immune system. Therefore, in childhood, when our inner defenses are just getting to know the bacteria, the child experiences many unpleasant side effects, including fever. In adulthood, this happens less and less.
The treatment of infectious diseases with honey can often be heard as a recommendation from doctors. However, there was no evidence of its effectiveness. Most of the people were based on their own experience. But the British decided to finally put an end to this issue and conducted a large-scale study.
What did the doctors do
The subjects in the study were patients from 14 clinics in the UK. Doctors prescribed different types of treatment for their patients. Some were offered honey as a substitute for the main medicine, others used it for placebo therapy. There were a lot of application variations. And in almost all but placebo, it has been shown to be good for treating coughs and infectious diseases.
It got to the point that it became more expedient to prescribe honey than other cough medicines. Including antibiotics, in the fight against the frequent use of which even the World Health Organization has been noticed. True, so far this practice concerns mainly the UK, but there is every chance that, given the evidence of the effectiveness of honey, it will go further.
Hidden subtext
It’s not hard to guess that this story still has a hidden subtext. It concerns not so much the interests of beekeeping farms, government officials or medical companies, as the growing problem of the loss of antibiotic effectiveness. Bacteria adapt to them, and people still do not have a decent alternative to this medicine.
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