Buying Manuka Honey

Until recently, I thought the name brand, MEDIHONEY, was some kind of medical grade honey infused with some pharmaceuticals. It’s not. It’s 100% Manuka Honey. As I stated in the post entitled, “Honey and Sickle Cell Foot Ulcers,” MEDIHONEY costs around $18 for a 1.5oz tube, plus shipping. Since I have to clean my wounds twice daily, a tube that size will only last two weeks; three if I’m lucky. In order to save some of my precious dollars, I looked for a way to buy it in bulk. Doing some research, and being careful to buy genuine Manuka Honey, which is what MEDIHONEY is, I found another source.

Though there are other sellers on the Internet of quality tested Manuka Honey, the one I felt most comfortable trying was “Manuka Honey USA.” For the price of $43, I purchased 500g—which equals 1.1 pounds or 17.6oz—of UMF 16+ Manuka Honey. That’s the equivalent to almost twelve 1.5oz tubes of MEDIHONEY; and it has a slightly higher UMF rating than MEDIHONEY has.

For nearly three weeks I’ve been using this brand of Manuka Honey. While MEDIHONEY is a good product, and the use of it benefited my wounds, I have not noticed any negative differences since I changed to this other brand. My wounds seem to be healing at the same rate with this honey as with the other brand.