Activon Tube 100% Manuka Honey Tube

Description

Activon Tube 100% Manuka Honey – 25g tube

Activon Tube contains 100% Manuka honey with no additives from New Zealand. Our Manuka honey is filtered and sterilised, making it suitable for application to wounds. Manuka honey will de-bride and de-slough, eliminate odours and provides a moist wound healing environment.

Activon Tube is ideal for debriding necrotic tissue; it’s ideal for topping up dressings where the honey is washed away or great for using directly into cavities. Honey can be washed away using normal saline solution. As honey is a natural product any remaining honey will not have any adverse effects.

Application:

Activon Tube may be applied to any wound but especially: Pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, diabetic ulcers, surgical wounds, burns, graft sites, infected wounds, cavity wounds and sinuses

Contra-indications:

Although the honey is not absorbed into the blood stream, we advise monitoring the levels of patients with diabetes. Do not use if allergic to bee venom. Discomfort can be experienced when honey is applied, depending on sensitivity of the wound it may be necessary to consider an appropriate level of analgesic. The initial discomfort usually subsides, however if it does continue, discontinue use and irrigate the wound with saline solution.

SINGLE USE PRODUCT – This product is a sterile product until opening, and can be used according to the manufacturer and the packaging for upto 90 days. This product has a one-off seal that once broken, it cannot be resealed, however the product is still useable. The manufacturers suggest to cover the end of the tube with cling film during this time. As this is a honey based product the effectiveness of it will not be deteriorated because the seal has been broken, it is just that the intended use is as a single use single patient product.