Honey heals ICU wounds? new study tests sweet solution
NCT ID NCT06150326
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether medical honey can help heal wounds in intensive care patients better than standard care. About 60 adults with fresh wounds (like pressure sores or cuts) will be randomly assigned to get either honey dressings or usual treatment. The main goal is to see if honey reduces wound size more after 15 days, and also if it lowers pain.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 60 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2024
- Expected to finish
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Apr 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A government agency
The lead sponsor is a government body.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Hospitalization in surgical intensive care unit A -USC PTO CHU ANGERS * Informed consent signed by patient or relative (or emergency inclusion procedure) * Patient with one or more wounds ≥ 4 cm2, evolving for less than 8 days, including: stage 2, 3, 4 pressure sores, lacerations, ulcers, dermabrasions and scar disunions. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with honey intolerance/allergy to bee stings * Patients with wounds lasting more than 8 days * Patient with a bleeding wound, * Patient with a tunneled wound * Patients with chronic dermatoses * Patient with an estimated life expectancy \< 15 days * Expected discharge ≤48 hours. * No affiliation to a French social security scheme or beneficiary of such a scheme. * Pregnant, breast-feeding or parturient woman * Person deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision * Person subject to a legal protection measure
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Angers University Hospital, surgical reanimation
RECRUITINGAngers, France
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