Maggots in my wound, and it feels good!
Rediff On The Net
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Researchers at the Princess of Wales Hospital in
Bridgend, south Wales, have showed that sterile maggots
can heal wounds faster than conventional medicine.
Soon, patients suffering from infected wounds would be
treated with maggots in the UK in a new scheme.
A BBC Online report said the squirming larvae were first
found to have curative properties during World War I.
Dr William Baer noticed that maggots were getting into
the wounds of people injured on the battlefield and
instead of making the wound worse, they helped clear it
up.
Dr Baer starting using maggot therapy at Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore and with excellent results, the
report said.
General practitioners around Britain will now be able to
offer patients a prescription of maggots to help heal
wounds and avoid lengthy stays in hospital.
The BBC Online report said maggots clean wounds by eating
dead tissue. They first spit out enzymes that liquefy the
tissue and then suck it up like soup.
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