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Pastes comprising primarily sucrose and polyethylene glycol 400 have been used with good effect to treat infected and malodorous wounds in many patients. The pastes have good in vitro antimicrobial activity and demonstrated no toxic effects in full thickness wounds in a controlled trial in a pig model. Other commonly used antiseptics that were tested showed impairment of wound healing. Sugar paste is inexpensive and should be considered for the treatment of infected wounds in preference to other antiseptics.
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Middleton, K.R., Seal, D.V. (1990). Development of a Semi-Synthetic Sugar Paste for Promoting Healing of Infected Wounds. In: Wadström, T., Eliasson, I., Holder, I., Ljungh, Å. (eds) Pathogenesis of Wound and Biomaterial-Associated Infections. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3454-1_19
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