Vetramil Honey Wound Ointment. --- With pure, medicinal honey with a high enzyme content.

Vetramil Wound Ointment.

Vetramil® is a wound ointment based on honey and essential oils for superficial and deep wounds in small and large (domestic) animals.
 

Vetramil may be used for:
Sensitive spots
Scratching
Red spots
Skin irritations and chapped areas

Vetramil Wound Ointment contains pure, medicinal honey with a high enzyme content.
The enzymes in the honey produce small amounts of hydrogen peroxide in a moist wound, making the wound clean and bacteria-free within a few days. The honey accelerates wound healing and heals damaged skin.

Added to Vetramil Wound Ointment are specific essential oils with antibacterial and antifungal properties.
The low pH of Vetramil Wound Ointment supports the condition and natural resistance of the skin.

• Supports natural wound healing and reduces the formation of scar tissue.

• Soothes red skin, is itch-relieving and restores damaged skin.

• Works antibacterial.

• Based on honey and essential oils.

Honey ointment from Vetramil

For a long time, honey ointment was mainly known as a skin remedy for the treatment of wounds in humans.
After the effect of honey ointment as an antibacterial wound product was proven by scientific clinical and case studies, the demand for the same type of wound ointment also grew within veterinary medicine.
Vetramil Honey Ointment was the appropriate answer!
By now, this unique ointment has taken its place within veterinary medicine.

What is Vetramil Honey Ointment?
Vetramil Honey Ointment is a honey ointment for animals.
This ointment contains 100% pure, standardized honey.
In addition, Vetramil contains a skin-nourishing base ointment and a number of antimicrobial essential oils such as Ocimum bacilicum and Tymus vulgaris which strengthen the skin's defenses and inhibit fungal and bacterial growth.
The essential oils also impart a slightly bitter taste to the ointment, making it unappealing to lick up.
 

Vetramil itching ointment
For some time now, Vetramil Honey Ointment has also been enriched with Cardiospermum extract, which has an itching and pain-relieving effect.
Because the extracts of this plant have a stabilizing effect on the lysosomal membranes and inhibit the production of pro-inflammatory prostaglandins, the excretion of pro-inflammatory substances is inhibited.

Honey and wound healing
The low pH of honey and the action of honey enzymes play an important role in its wound healing properties.
The action of enzymes on honey sugars creates an acidic environment, inhibiting many harmful microorganisms.
A low pH also strengthens skin resistance.
When honey is applied in a moist (wound) environment, the honey enzymes become active and produce small amounts of anti-bacterial hydrogen peroxide.
However, the composition of different honeys varies widely and depends on many factors in nature that cannot be controlled.
The content of active enzymes in consumer honey varies greatly and is usually very low (Kerkvliet et al. 1996) which makes it unsuitable as a therapeutic product.
Bfactory, producer of Revamil and Vetramil, developed a method for the production of medi-cinal honey with high enzyme and acid content based on years of research at Wageningen University.

The action of honey
Honey consists largely of sugars and a small part of water, organic compounds and enzymes.
The enzyme glucose oxidase is added to honey by honey bees and provides antibacterial activity:

Hydrogen peroxide: in contact with the wound, the honey is diluted with wound fluid and the enzyme glucose oxidase is activated.
This enzyme provides a continuous production of hydrogen peroxide whose concentration is high enough to kill pathogenic bacteria but does not cause damage to the healing wound.

Slow Release: The production of hydrogen peroxide is very gradual and continues as long as honey is still present in the wound.
The rate at which the honey dissolves in the wound depends on the degree of exudation of the wound.

Low pH: The action of glucose oxidase also produces gluconic acid.
This is the main organic acid in honey and regulates an acidic wound environment.
The amount of acid in honey is an important measure of antibacterial activity (Bogdanov, 1997).

Low water activity: The low water activity of honey makes it difficult for most bacteria to survive.

Essential oils: Vetramil includes essential oils of Tymus vulgaris (thyme) and Ocimum basilicum (basil).
Thyme has broad spectrum activity against bacteria, while basil has activity against several fungi (Price 1999)

Research on Vetramil Honey Ointment
For the time being, research on the action of medicinal honey has been conducted mainly in human medicine.
Studies have been conducted in several hospitals with the human honey ointment Revamil®.
Vetramil honey ointment is a honey ointment for animals, developed from the same recipe as Revamil®.

A study of the use of honey in 59 patients with wounds and ulcers that did not heal after conventional treatment showed significant improvement in 58 of the 59 cases.
Wounds that were already sterile at the start of the study remained sterile until the wound was closed, and infected wounds and ulcers became sterile within 1 week of honey deployment.
Dead and affected tissue was very quickly replaced by new, healthy tissue (Epheme, SE. (1988). "Clinical observations on the wound healing properties of honey". Br J Surg. 1988 Jul; 75(7): 679-81.).

A study of the use of honey ointment in 9 young infants with open, infected wounds that did not respond to conventional treatment (intra-venous deployment of antibiotics and external cleansing of the wound with chlorhexidine 0.05% W/V in water solution) showed that all infants showed significant improvements after 5 days of external treatment with honey ointment.
All wounds became dry and sterile and closed within 21 days (Vardi et al. (1998). "Local application of honey for treatment of neonatal postoperative wound infection". Acta Paediatrica, Volume 87, No. 4: 429-432).

A preliminary study conducted among 80 patients at Bronovo Hospital found that this honey ointment effectively disinfects the wound while promoting the healing process.

Parts of this text on Vetramil also appeared in: Creemers and Bosma (2006), "Honey ointment for wound healing and skin problems in animals". Animal and Physician.