THYME HONEY VIRTUES ON BURN WOUNDS HEALING IN YOUNG CHILDREN: A RETROSPECTIVE PRELIMINARY STUDY AND LITERATURE REVIEW

Clinicians have been searching for ways to obtain proper wound healing with an accessible cost. Honey is an ancient traditional remedy for the treatment of infected wounds. We evaluated burn wound healing and antibacterial properties of locally produced Thyme honey on different types of burns in young children (<2 Years Old).This experimental study was conducted over a period of 2 years, in the Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns at the Avicenna Military Hospital of Marrakech on young children. This series includes 20 hospitalized children with ages between 6 months and 2 years, suffering different burn types and areas. All the patients received topical thyme honey based protocol.The average length of hospitalization was 12 days with an average time for burn wound coverage of 2 weeks. All of our patients resulted a flat healing without hard bulges or disfiguring complications. We concluded that using of thyme honey dressings on burns wounds results a comparable healing time to modern dressings with proper healing and a cheaper cost.