Maggot Therapy Gains in Popularity

Cybergal · Nov 19, 2008

Maggot Therapy Gains in Popularity

Maggots, the larval stage of certain flies, are already a federally approved treatment for people with nasty bed sores, chronic post-surgical wounds and diabetic foot ulcers.

Now, maggot therapy has received a boost from the medical establishment that could make it easier for patients and doctors to get insurance reimbursement for this treatment, which was noticed as effective against war wounds by Napoleon's surgeon general as well as by orthopedic surgeon Dr. William S. Baer during WWI, among others.

Today, specially prepared maggots, typically of the green bottle fly, are used to "debride" wounds, feeding on sick tissue so healthy cells can move in and further infection is avoided. Maggot therapy was common in the United States in the 1930s but was replaced by antibiotics in the following decade or so. Now, with the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria including MRSA or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, maggot therapy is getting a second look.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience...npopularity;_ylt=AqXWzpg3apO77w_WUH1J9FKs0NUE
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Big Don · Nov 20, 2008

Wonder if these would have worked on the guy who lost Mr. Happy and the twins???http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...inmate-gets-300-000-evaporating-genitals.html

walleye · Nov 20, 2008

I thought maybe they were letting folks hang around in the halls of congress....

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