Cleaning Cuts With Maggots
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Maggots are helping doctors clean up hard-to-treat wounds without damaging healthy tissue nearby.
Is this a step back to he Dark Ages? Not at all, say researchers. The larvae produce powerful enzymes that degrade and liquefy dead tissue..
To prevent infection, doctors use only sterile larvae of the green blowfly, shown here, raised at the Bio-surgical Research Laboratory at Princess of Wales Hospital in Britain. In an age of increasing resistance to antibiotics, the maggot cure may do a better job than even modern medicines
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seen on tv liao
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post lorOriginally posted by crazy monkey:Maggots are helping doctors clean up hard-to-treat wounds without damaging healthy tissue nearby.
Is this a step back to he Dark Ages? Not at all, say researchers. The larvae produce powerful enzymes that degrade and liquefy dead tissue..
To prevent infection, doctors use only sterile larvae of the green blowfly, shown here, raised at the Bio-surgical Research Laboratory at Princess of Wales Hospital in Britain. In an age of increasing resistance to antibiotics, the maggot cure may do a better job than even modern medicines
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i saw the sex organ removal pics while eating breakfast also no feeling -
what has that got to do with anything?Originally posted by hisoka:post lor
i saw the sex organ removal pics while eating breakfast also no feeling -
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he said got gross pic mahOriginally posted by WoShiNoobie:what has that got to do with anything? -
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almost vomittedOriginally posted by crazy monkey: -
its on a live person not dead body btw.Originally posted by jay_rocks:almost vomitted
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i tot the maggots will eat up the flesh?? den how to remove the maggots after that?? not pain meh?!!!?!?
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from what i noe,this type of treatment is not new. it has been practiced long long long long long long long time ago be4 modern medicineOriginally posted by crazy monkey:Maggots are helping doctors clean up hard-to-treat wounds without damaging healthy tissue nearby.
Is this a step back to he Dark Ages? Not at all, say researchers. The larvae produce powerful enzymes that degrade and liquefy dead tissue..
To prevent infection, doctors use only sterile larvae of the green blowfly, shown here, raised at the Bio-surgical Research Laboratory at Princess of Wales Hospital in Britain. In an age of increasing resistance to antibiotics, the maggot cure may do a better job than even modern medicines
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eeewww... yucks disgusting!
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i noe got one is toe.another one look like kebah...anthoer one like drumstick kana bitten off like tat.
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it was done in the american civil war. Field surgeons always allow flies to lay eggs on rotting flesh. The maggots somehow prefer rotting flesh to healty flesh. So it helps to fight infection.
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It was (and still is i think) taught to American SF medics. The maggots will eat the dead flesh and so help in the healing process. However, i heard that once the dead flesh is gone, the maggots will move on to live flesh. That is when it hurts and when you should start removing the revolting critters...
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i think they use pincer to pick them out one by one after the treatmentOriginally posted by Steph84:i tot the maggots will eat up the flesh?? den how to remove the maggots after that?? not pain meh?!!!?!? -
I think its pretty cool, mother nature at it's best.
maggots only eat dead tissue and I think something in their saliva acts as some sort of disinfectant and its great for open sores and wounds... but have to remove after a certain time period ... a few days I think.. -
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eeeww!! my hair is standing now,arrgh.
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reminds me of d scene in 'Brotherhood' where day poor guy got maggots in his stomach.....
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ahahahahahahahahaahahahahaahahahahahahaha I gotta stop reading this thread,,,
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Urgh.
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in Gladiator also gotOriginally posted by CryoLind:reminds me of d scene in 'Brotherhood' where day poor guy got maggots in his stomach.....