Background: Burn injury is a global health problem associated with major morbidity and mortality. Honey has long been used in wound management due to its ability to accelerate healing rates and prevent infection. This study is conducted to evaluate the efficacy of honey dressing in shortening healing duration of burn injury compared to silver sulphadiazine (SSD). Methods: A PubMed and Proquest ...

Burns expose the deeper tissues of the skin or body to invasive microbes. Topical preparations for treating burn wounds, to be useful, should ideally have antibiotic power and promote healing. Silver compounds have been the mainstay of topical burn treatment for decades. However, most chemical substances retard wound healing. Several natural agents such as honey and moist exposed burn ointment ...

Formulation of silver nitrate and silver sulphadiazine is choice of drug in topical treatment of burns and related inflammation. Ancient silver based nanomedicine of Ayurveda is raupya bhasma (RB) used in treatment of different ailments but RB is still not explored to their anti-inflammatory activity. To consider this an attempt has been made to evaluate in-vitro anti-inflammatory activity of R...

Previous studies had shown that sub-inhibitory concentrations of silver sulphadiazine (AgSD) stimulated the production of Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 in certain strains (responder strains) of Staphylococcus aureus and that protease production was also affected. No changes were detected in other strains (non-responders). Extracellular proteins from eleven responder and non-responder strains gro...

This study evaluated the use of phototherapy in the healing of mixed leg ulcers in two diabetic patients (type 2) with arterial hypertension. The device had probe 1 (one 660 nm LED, 5 mW) applied in 3 ulcers and probe 2 (32 890 nm LEDs associated with 4 660 nm LEDs, 500 mW) in 6 ulcers. After asepsis, ulcers were treated with probes to 3 J/cm2, 30 sec per point, twice a week, followed by topica...

When prevalence of meningococcal disease is increased contacts of cases may require chemoprophylaxis, and sodium sulphadiazine is the drug of choice. However, increasing numbers of meningococci are resistant to sulphonamides (Fallon, 1975, 1977) andmany alternative chemoprophylactic agents are ineffectual. Sodium fusidate is active against a few strains of meningococci in vitro (Barber and Wate...

The resistance patterns of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from freshwater and seawater to different antimicrobial agents and heavy metals were studied. It was found that resistance in these environments is linked to the level of faecal pollution. All strains were resistant to ampicillin and tetracycline but sensitive to carbenicillin, amikacin, tobramycin, and colistin, and to the assa...

The present study proposes a simple and inexpensive photometric method for the selective determination of Ag(I). This employed home-made double beam photometer silver ions based on an optode sensor prepared by immobilization 5-(P-Dimethylaminobenzylidene)-rhodanine (PDR) triacetyl cellulose (TAC) membrane. Two green LEDs as sources light light-dependent resistors (LDRs) detectors were used in p...