Honey combined with silver ion dressing in complicated chronic wound of the scalp: a case report

J.-Q. Lin, L.-L. Yang, X. Yang, X.-H. Zeng, Y. Zhang, Z.-P. Li, H.-Y. Liu

Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Nephrology, Mianyang Central Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichman, P.R. China. jing_zp@sina.com

---

• Infectious Diseases
• Neurosurgery

OBJECTIVE: Scalp wound healing is a complex process. Nonhealing wounds can become chronic wounds, which increase the trauma and economic burden on a patient and may even cause death in severe cases. Thus, it can be difficult to find an effective treatment for chronic wounds of the scalp.

CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 13-year-old female patient with a chronic wound caused by a scalp incision infection 3 months after two operations for craniotomy for arachnoid cyst resection and cystic lesion-cisterna magna drainage. After repeated dressing changes and two debridement operations, the incision had still not healed during the following year. The wound finally healed after 6 months of dressing changes by combining honey with silver ion dressings, and the incision had not re-ruptured after 10 months of follow-up.

CONCLUSIONS: Honey combined with silver may be an effective method for the treatment of chronic scalp wounds.

Free PDF Download