Honey in the Prevention and Treatment of Diarrhea

Scientists may have found a natural alternative for the treatment of diarrhea, according to studies.
Diarrhea is a condition of loose, watery stools. Acute diarrhea is a common problem in North America that lasts for a very short time.

However, chronic diarrhea can be worrisome. The most common causes of chronic diarrhea are diseases associated with the gastrointestinal tract, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis), and malabsorption syndromes.

According to the statistics, acute diarrhea is one of the common causes of death among children younger than 5 years old worldwide.


The disease is associated mostly in the countries which poor environmental sanitation, inadequate water supplies, and poverty.


There are many risk factors involved in the onset of the syndrome, including demography, socio-economy, poor water supply, poor sanitation, poor hygiene practices, breastfeeding, and malnutrition.


Some researchers suggested that a severely weakened immune system such as the use of immune-suppressive medicine and the elderly may also at a higher risk of diarrhea.


Dr. Bouchaud O in examing the risk of immune deficiency and diarrhea wrote, "With a prevalence of approximatively 50%, diarrhea is a frequent event in an immune deficiency of any cause".

And "Gram-negative infections and Clostridium difficile colitis have to be diagnosed because efficient treatment is available. In these patients usually in bad general condition, because diarrhea is often of unknown etiology or noncurable, the diagnostic and therapeutic strategy has to be pragmatic in order to control the symptoms without an excess of invasive procedures".

These results clearly suggested that if you have a severely weakened immune system, you are at higher risk of bacterial infected diarrhea.

Honey is a miraculous product made by bees using nectar from flowers.

The rich golden liquid is considered one healthy sweet food for replacing the use of white sugar and artificial sweetener by many people.

Researchers searching for a natural compound for the treatment of diarrhea evaluated the honey gastroprotective effect against diarrhea.

Injection of honey induced a significant reduction in the duration of bacterial diarrhea, and it had worked well as a substitute for glucose in an oral rehydration solution containing electrolytes.

In nonbacterial gastroenteritis, honey exerted a similar effect as glucose on the duration of diarrhea.

In an array of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, most pathogenic bacteria failed to grow in honey at a concentration of 40% and above, similar to those studies of honey on Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus mirabilis, and Candida albicans failed to grow in the presence of undiluted honey in vitro experiments.

Honey-agar all intestinal bacterial pathogens failed to grow at a concentration of 40% and above of pure honey, compared to those of bacterias in control plates and different growth media.


Scientists wrote in the final report, "Findings from studies on honey have thus shown that when given with an ORS it shortens the duration of bacterial diarrhea and may safely be used as a substitute for glucose, provided that the solution contains electrolytes".


In order to reveal more information about honey anti-diarrhea activity, researchers examined the honey on diarrhea and fecal microbiota in critically ill patients.

The double-blind, randomized controlled single-center study, included 32 patients randomly selected to receive a high protein kitchen enteral diet or honey as 10% of their carbohydrate intake.


The treatment group showed an insignificant increase in the frequency of bifidobacterium DNA by study day 7 in comparison with the control group and a considerable reduction in diarrhea.

Honey group also reduced the length of the Intensive Care Unit and the development of organ failure in critically ill patients.

Taken altogether, honey may be considered a functional remedy for the prevention and treatment of diarrhea, pending the confirmation of a large sample size and multicenter human study.


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Sources
(1) Honey: its antibacterial action in the treatment of gastroenteritis.[No authors listed]. (PubMed)
(2) Effect of Honey on Diarrhea and Fecal Microbiotain in Critically Ill Tube-Fed Patients: A Single Center Randomized Controlled Study by Zahra Vahdat Shariatpanahi,1 Fatemeh Jamshidi,1 Javad Nasrollahzadeh,1 Zohreh Amiri,1 andHouman Teymourian. (PubMed)
(3) [Diarrhea in immune deficiency status].[Article in French] by Bouchaud O. (PubMed)