Table 2 A literature review on application of honey in PSD
| Â | Author | Country | Year | Wound Description | Number in trial | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Vasei et al. (Vasei & Jahangiri, 2008) | Iran | 2008 | PSD | 12 patients in intervention and control groups each respectively | No significant difference between healing time patients in intervention and control groups, painful dressing, bloody oozing in half of the patients |
2 | Hamdan et al. (Hamdan, 2008) | UK | 2008 | Recurrent PSD | 16 PSD patients who were all initial failures with primary treatment | Local excision and packing with honey dressing as one option in patients undergoing elective primary treatment of PSD and in those with an acute pilonidal abscess with excellent early results |
3 | Grant et al. (Grant, 2009) | USA | 2009 | Pilonidal abscess which was incised and left open for secondary healing and drainage. | 3 patients | Improvement in clinical outcomes, comfortable and easy to apply dressing, managed the exudate levels, odor controlled |
4 | Thomas et al (Thomas et al., 2011) | UK | 2011 | Chronic or recurrent PSD | 17 patients | 15 patients with complete wound closure with significantly lower mean healing time |
5 | Elhorbity et al. (Elhorbity et al., 2018) | Egypt | 2018 | Acute infected wounds, such as wound after surgical excision of coccygeal of pilonidal sinus | 50 patients in intervention and control groups each respectively | Highly effective in local management of infected wound, shortly time of healing, economic, cost effective, more patients satisfies, comfort with less pain, lesser wound scare formation, more cosmetics |
6 | Hermanns et al. (Hermanns & Rodrigues, 2019) | Netherlands | 2019 | Chronic PSD with primary closure, and then wound dehiscence | One patient as case report | Effective in preventing infection and inducing healing, reduce the prolonged or repeated use of antibiotics. |