Maggots Clean Wounds Faster Than Doctors

Seen it first hand on the street. Older homeless lady history of Diabetes and neuropathy had non healing wounds on her legs. Didn't seek medical attention for several weeks. When she got into the ED after complaining of pain to the area, makeshift bandages were unwrapped to find very deep wounds to the calf that were absolutely clean due to several maggots living in the wounds. Don't know the outcome of her stay but, the wounds looked great.

 

I think I saw this on TV not that long ago, they showed someone with major wounds over a large portion of their body - and they dumped maggots on them. *shivers*

Seems to work though.

 

They had a story about this on Untold Stories of the ER..a homeless man had a leg wound and his entire leg was covered in maggots.. I can handle a lot of gross things, but that made me queasy..

 

Not that uncommon. It's far better than the smells of rot.

 

When I heard this I wanted to say, you know we've been doing this for thousands of years? We need to learn to live better with nature than to fight it. I've used maggots for years on my wounds. Jungle/tropical medicine is very freaking cool. It's amazing what grows in our backyards.

 

it is true, the africans use maggots to heal their wound. The Maggots eat the ulcers and sanies in the wound.

 

Maggots are eaten as a part of some cheeses in several areas of the world.

So, I guess this is a wake up call on maggots, eh?

Hooray for maggots. Yessiree.. good ole maggots.. mmmm..