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- doiveo, on 11/19/2008, -0/+21My girlfriend is a nurse and administered this treatment before. Apparently they are very effective and just eat the dead flesh then fall off. Still, to see this would be gross.
- d2002, on 11/19/2008, -0/+13It looked awesome on House.
- allowners, on 11/20/2008, -1/+11They've also done wonders for the economy!
- dvsbastard, on 11/21/2008, -1/+10Personally, I would like to see "Eye of Newt" used more often in the medical field...
- toshimonkey, on 11/21/2008, -2/+10Maggot therapy. And I still can't legally smoke weed.
- Trollbane, on 11/21/2008, -2/+8In 700 years of medicine we've moved from leeches to maggots.
- kismetropolis, on 11/21/2008, -1/+6I've heard of this practice before, and I'm glad the dead skin gets eaten away and all...
but...
EW. - thepoliticalcat, on 11/19/2008, -1/+5Eww. I mean, OK, my partner's a scientist and all, and I first read about this ages ago on Science News (complete with, ugh, pictures), but this article rates a tad high on my yick factor.
- dithyrambica, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Like Margot Kidder of Superman Loise Lane fame?
This sounds even better than Maggot Therapy.
I up my thumb at you for inadvertently referencing Margot Kidder. - archiesteel, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Off-topic troll is off-topic.
- mikbunn, on 11/20/2008, -1/+4If it's good enough for Russell Crowe, it's good enough for me.
- Pluripotency, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3I heard a story once of an old woman with an infected skin tumor on her head that was bound up by a hat. The tumor became infested with maggots and she survived because the maggots ate the rotting flesh before she received medical help.
I’m not sure if the story is true but it seems plausible. - hooah212002, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3When were maggots illegal? and why would they be?
- kangy3213, on 11/21/2008, -3/+6wtf
- crsnglb, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Damn right I'm gonna look!
::looks::
...Oh dear God, why didn't I listen... - spolastre, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Ewwwww.....
- GorfTron, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Inadvertent?
- dithyrambica, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2and Toe of Frog.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2I cant wait till Monsanto, in an effort to improve maggot efficiency releases flies in to the wild who's maggots prefer live human flesh.
- olego, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1On the plane!
- paraforce, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Disgusting.
I don't care what the hell I've got, maggots are going nowhere near me. - ctabone, on 11/21/2008, -2/+3*WARNING*
The third and fourth photo in their photo series is quite graphic. Kind of wish I could un-see them.
Of course, now you know you're going to look anyways... - davidg11, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Damn it. You beat me to it.
- stonebear, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1And then sue you for patent infringement when they are discovered infesting your flesh.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1in the same quantities as regular maggots, not just 1
- MorganMghee, on 11/19/2008, -2/+3Yeah! And here's to changing our way of thinking... but ewy!
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1WHAAAAAAAT!!??!
(ulp) - Charco, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Its quite awesome to watch,
The maggots used in the NHS are grown in Switzerland. You don't actually have them in contact with the skin. They are held in a packet with an extremely thin porous material which they can eat through, in the NHS anyways ;)
The wound looks so much better when they have done there work! - davidg11, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Uh, actually I think they still use leeches.
http://www.leeches.biz/
Take THAT ancient Chinese medicine.
And YES, Tomatoes ARE poisonous and bathing is bad for you! - geneticlemon, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Already learned this from watching 'Gladiator.'
- Daxx22, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Look up Bot Flies.
- dsmx, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1WE DIDN'T LISTEN
- OrangeTide, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Let's put these maggots to vverk.
- redwolf, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1There's a pretty good UK doco about various old school therapies that are coming back. Maggot therapy was one of them.
They were interviewing a patient with a nasty diabetes related ulcer that wouldn't heel and he was shocked when it was suggested, but as nothing else had been working, he gave it a shot. His one stipulation was that nobody was told about it. Funny thing was that he was so impressed at the change that within 24 hours he was the one telling everyone in earshot how amazing the maggots were. - sanman, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1wasn't there some story just posted up about the woman with the worm in her brain?
and now people want this? - stonebear, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1I believe maggots have been used in medicine much longer than 700 years.
- stonebear, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Bot fly larvae are a promising medical symbiant. They don't burrow around eating your flesh; they burrow straight in, and then remain immobile as they suck blood from your deep layer of skin. After a few days they just crawl out and fly away. What makes them valuable to medicine is that they secrete a potent antibiotic and a pain killer into their host's tissue while they are present.
- nationalist, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1dugg up just for the screen
- terrortwilights, on 11/21/2008, -0/+0I once saw a patient that somehow got maggots in the diabetic ulcers in her feet. They did a better job at cleaning out the infection than the wound care clinic.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1I am wondering what next? may be snakes?
- DeathJux, on 11/21/2008, -2/+2NO
- eternalfuture, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1If the side effect is only a sense of disgust, well, I think it's worth using.
- WeylandYutani, on 11/21/2008, -0/+0'Especially among the zombie community of New England.'
- davidg11, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1UM NOM NOM.
- davidg11, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1"Why you little maggot, you make me want to vomit!"
- RadiatedAnt, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1what ever happend to the delectable balls of newt
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+0I was hoping they meant eradicating those annoying Little Emo Slipknot fans. Shame :(
- davidg11, on 11/21/2008, -2/+1Let me tell you how I met my wife.
I had this huge sore in my face full of maggots....and....well... lets just say the rest was history!
She said it was love at first sight! - scoottie, on 11/21/2008, -4/+3Down with Prop 8 ..... how wait you said maggot
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