Another study compared honey and SSD on burn wound healing (i.e., improvement in burn wound size and re-epithelialization) in patients with superficial partial thickness burns. Patients included in this study had similar burns (e.g., second degree burns of similar depth) on comparable burned surface areas (e.g., right hand and left hand). In addition, patients in this study received both treatment options; that is, a patient's right hand was treated with honey while his/her left hand was treated with SSD. Results from this study indicated that the average healing time was significantly shorter for the body surfaces treated with honey. Interestingly, the wounds treated with honey were found to heal approximately two days faster than the wounds treated with SSD. Additionally, cultures of the wounds found that only six patients tested positive for Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the sites that were treated with honey compared to 27 patients in the sites treated with SSD. Two additional patients tested positive for Escherichia coli infection in the wound sites that were treated with SSD. The authors of this study concluded that honey was a more effective treatment for superficial partial thickness burns than SSD.