From an article 6 Disgusting Ways Animals Can Improve Your Health:
Maggots have the worst P.R. department in the whole fucking insect kingdom. They’re famous for turning up in the most horrible situations, from the basket of ham you left to rot on the back porch to the corpses of L.A. Hookers. To make matters worse for the maggot, their whole purpose of life is to grow up into a fly, which would be sort of like Andy Dick metastasizing into Carlos Mencia.
As it turns out, maggotkind’s shitty reputation isn’t entirely deserved. They’re basically nature’s answer to antibacterial soap. Maggots eat dead flesh, and doctors long ago realized that the maggot’s tendency to wolf down dead skin can help people with infected wounds from succumbing to gangrene, at the low cost of stomach turning revulsion.
With the advent of modern antibiotics, Maggot Therapy declined in use but doctors never took it off the table entirely and, thanks to an increase of ultra-badass anti-biotic resistant bacteria, it’s been making a notable comeback.
That’s right, our mortal medicines cannot harm these highly advanced mutant bacteria, but they’re not shit when put up against the heroic maggot. While bacteria can evolve to become capable of fighting off medicines, they haven’t quite figured out how to jump their last evolutionary hurdle and become uneatable.
While drug laws haven’t relaxed quite enough to let you buy cartons of medical maggots for home use, any doctor in America can prescribe them as treatment. And if you want to get them under the table you can always just leave some sausage out in the sun for a few days and cultivate your own.
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Maggots only eat dead flesh. But how do you tell what’s dead and what’s not? Dr’s would typically start cutting, and when the patient started screaming, well, that wasn’t dead flesh. Give me maggots instead. BTW, they don’t let ’em loose to travel around your wound, they usually put some maggots in something like a tea bag, so you don’t even see them, you just feel a little tingle. Good stuff. Maybe our ancestors weren’t so stupid and uneducated after all…
Too bad it didnt occur to them until the 19th century. I saw a special on this on tv once, they used it on a women’s exposed wound. Her camel toe was bigger then my freaken head! That bothered me more then the maggots.
lol..isiah sounds traumatized!
GROSS
…and now you’ve ruined the macaroni and cheese I was just eating.
(I’m not kidding…I was actually eating that, lol!)
Maggots are helpful, but DAMN gross! It would be a last resort for me to have to use them!
I wonder if they’re tickling his azz?
Then he would be lmao (larva my azz off).