Review article
DISEASES OF THE EYE AND THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECT OF HONEY
Suzana Nikolić-Pavljašević
orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-1392
; Policlinic for eye diseases, Public Health Center "Dr. Mustafa Šehović" Tuzla, Albina Herljevića br. 1, 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Edita Redžepagić-Dervišević
; The Eye Clinic, UCC Sarajevo, Bolnička 25, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
Honey has been used by man more than 8000 years, both as a food or for therapeutic purposes. For therapeutic purposes honey is used to treat eye diseases, such as: conjunctivitis, ulcers of the cornea, cataract, glaucoma, trachoma and diabetic retinopathy. Vitamins in honey have a greater value in relation to the pharmacological vitamins produced syntheticaly. Biogene components from honey increase the activity of honey's vitamin, and also enhance healing effects of honey (enzymes, microelements, fitohormoni). Literature data show the number of beneficial effects of honey in treatment of eye diseases. Application of honey in the treatment of eye diseases are diverse, from dry eye syndrome, the treatment of conjunctivitis cause with pathogen resistant and in the treatment of cataracts, where the application of honey slows down the processes blur of the lens. Studies that indicate the application of honey on glaucoma, open up a new chapter in the approach to the treatment of this disease of the eye. Change of the color of the iris after applying honey in the form of drops widers the field of application. In the end, honey as pluripotent chemical substance, as food and as medicine, can be applied in the treatment of eye diseases and as such can have an advantage in relation to other synthetical chemical substances that are used in the treatment of eye diseases.
Keywords
honey; diseases of the eye; dry eye; cataracts; glaucoma
Hrčak ID:
169140
URI
Publication date:
31.8.2016.
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