Maggot therapy is actually a great way to clean wounds. Maggots eat all the dead tissue in a wound but don’t bother the healthy tissue at all.
Video not for the squeamish.
Maggot therapy (also known as maggot debridement therapy (MDT), larval therapy, larva therapy, larvae therapy, biodebridement or biosurgery) is a type of biotherapy involving the intentional introduction by a health care practitioner of live, disinfected maggots (fly larvae) raised in special facilities into the non-healing skin and soft tissue wound(s) of a human or animal for the purposes of selectively cleaning out only the necrotic tissue within a wound (debridement), disinfection, and promotion of wound healing.
I knew exactly what I was going to see, but that still made my stomach turn.
Scott,
I have the same reaction to Austin Powers movies.
I was less shocked by the maggots than I was by the wound. She was missing so much skin from her heel, like a quarter inch in depth.
You can’t patent this so you can’t make buckets of money from it. Without the buckets of money I don’t see how the US health management industry will be interested in something like this.
I often check out this site while eating, but after the cat w/ arrow thru the head and this, I’d might have to rethink.
I was eating while watching this with no problems – there must be something wrong with me!
maggots comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the maggot go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that maggot he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a maggot… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living… until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they… rip you to pieces.
Hi, I am a nurse which specializes in wound care I am trying to locate a company that sells Maggots for wound care therapy. If anyone can help me find this information it would be greatly appreicated.