Does honey make your eyes healthy?

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• Cathy Dailey

  03/18/2015

  As we all know that honey is good for drizzing on toasts, biscuits, and mixing it with tea. It is also a popular folk remedy for open wounds and cuts, skin disorders and infected skin for its antimicrobial properties.However, honey is also suggested as a natural eye cure for eye infection, pink eye, itchy eye and dry eye you immediately get the incredulous eye-wide stares. Honey has anti-inflammatory properties that can be explored in several corneal inflammatory and infectious conditions and it is a better natural eye cure for dry eyes than artificial tears. Though the solution used contained only 20% honey, it was found that honey could treat eye infection even when diluted. Moreover, it is showed a significant improvement in a corneal ulcer condition with topical honey when antibiotics, antiviral agents and corticosteroids had no effect. According to Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a double blind clinical trial with 60 patients in Iran revealed the effectivenss of honey drop in treating Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis, a form of chronic allergic conjunctivitis which results in severe eye irritation, abnormal sensitivity to light, swelling, tearing, and excessive mucus secretions. It is believed that the flavonoids in honey can access and heal the eyes lens and improve vision, and along with its antioxidant and osmotic properties it can cure eye infections.

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• Warren

  03/19/2015

  Yes, of course, honey can be used in eye drop solutions to relieve and soothe dry eyes, because of its ability to draw water from surrounding cells through osmosis this is a super effective treatment and you also can made at home. In addition, because an eye infection can be caused by bacteria, it makes sense to treat it with honey.just mix equal parts of a good quality honey with boiled or distilled water to make this remedy. Apply to your eye using a cotton ball. Leave it on your eye for thirty minutes. When done, throw the cotton ball away.so all above truly prove that honey works well on our eye healthy.

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• eddy

  03/22/2015

  Yes. You maybe surprised about that honey can be used for eye healthy. In fact. Honey as a remedy to cure eye diseases which found out by Ancient Egyptians and Indians.honey can protect and improve our eyesight and they also applied in daily life. The benefit of honey is that they can treat eye infection such as redness and itching of the eyes,trachoma,conjunctivitis and other similar diseases. Honey used both internally and externally prevents glaucoma in its initial stage. Honey is also said to be useful for prevention of cataract.Many people have found that relief from Dry Eye Syndrome using honey. Dry eye syndrome is the result of drying out of liquid in the white or conjunctiva part of the eyes. Here is explained how to use honey for eye care: use one teaspoon honey and one teaspoon warm bottled water,dissolve honey in warm water.apply,when cooled,as lotion or eye bath. This works as a wonderful eye wash for relieving eye infection.

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