Maggots for good health?

[classy]

Now this is just to squeamish. I thought maggots actually would cause infection. I don't think I could stand having maggots on me, no flippin way.

Maggots

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Hey, if it works great. I would prefer that to being sick.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Maggots are making a medical comeback, cleaning out wounds that just won't heal. In January, they became the first live animals to win Food and Drug Administration approval as a medical device to clean out wounds.

Eeewww! 🙁

 

[cavemanmoron]

old school trick,
it works in severe cases,when "normal" stuff won't....

also they don't use your garbage can maggots,but special bred ones.

 

[AMDZen]

This has been known for years, centuries even. Nothing new.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Don't be squeamish
So far, most patients have been enthusiastic -- once they are reassured that the sterilized greenfly larvae will not start burrowing into healthy flesh.

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?These maggots are only interested in dead and unhealthy tissue. Rather than strip a leg, they will start eating each other instead,? Raynor said.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Germs cause infection.

(Maggots - germs + wound)time = :thumbsup:

 

[DougK62]

I read that people getting treated with maggots can actually feel them moving around in their body and eating stuff. Nasty!

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: DougK62
I read that people getting treated with maggots can actually feel them moving around in their body and eating stuff. Nasty!

Given the circumstances they're used under I'd be cheering the little fvckers on.

Viper GTS

 

[jjones]

If it's good enough for Maximus, it's good enough for me. 😛

 

[Bootprint]

Some pictures can be found at larve.com, not a direct link to the pictures.

 

[screw3d]

I wouldn't mind it 🙂

 

[MAME]

they are supposed to be very very good at cleaning wounds

 

[OulOat]

Why the ewwws? These maggots are raised in sterile environments. If they can help me heal faster, I say good for them.

 

[SunnyD]

It's like sticking a body part in a bowl of moving spaghetti... enough :beer: and you won't mind.

 

[UbiSunt]

A lot less gross than your leg rotting off due to drug-resistant Staph.

 

[blackdogdeek]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
It's like sticking a body part in a bowl of moving spaghetti... enough :beer: and you won't mind.

don't want too much :beer:. drunk maggots are really obnoxious.

 

[kage69]

An ages-old method for treating infections combined with a sterile implementation, sounds good to me.

 

I'd use them with no second thoughts.

 

[MisfitsFiend]

I had maggots in my car once...two cars ago...still pretty damned gross!!! My husband (then boyfriend) thought I had spilled some rice - we had been carrying food trays from a party a few weeks before thet....ugh...

BUT, as for medical threatment, that's great!!

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: UbiSunt
A lot less gross than your leg rotting off due to drug-resistant Staph.

😎

 

[thirdlegstump]

couldn't pass this up...

http://www.maggotcontrol.com

 

[vi edit]

My wife said that the University of Iowa hospital has used "medicinal" maggots for this purpose for quite a while. She's had to get them and leaches as well out of the vault a couple times.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
My wife said that the University of Iowa hospital has used "medicinal" maggots for this purpose for quite a while. She's had to get them and leaches as well out of the vault a couple times.

I saw a show on the use of maggots. The guy had frostbite or something and they were going to amputate, but tried maggots instead. He kept his foot.

Leaches are used to promote bloodflow to areas of low to no blood flow. They have saved fingers and toes from frostbite.