Reality Check: Can honey soothe a burn?

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Reality Check: Can honey soothe a burn?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that applying butter or various popular ointments, for example, can increase the risk of infection. But at least one remedy, honey, has held up well.
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Posted Mar 02, 2008
from Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness
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todd: i read 'burn' as 'bum'. memo to self: do not put butter or honey on yer bum.
Posted Mar 02, 2008

Shimon: todd: there's a word to describe this phenomenon. It's called "keming". Keming is the use of kerning in a way that causes confusion.
Posted Mar 03, 2008

smckenzie23: todd, do what you gotta do in the big house. butter, honey, whatever... ;-)
Posted Mar 03, 2008

jessica: This news simply justifies something humans have known for ages. There's a real reason why honey and lemon are in throat drops.
Posted Mar 03, 2008

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