Posted on 07/30/2016 2:56:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Ewww. Ick, ick, ick. (Grief! I have a sudden urge to go take a long, hot shower!)
“a half gallon milk bottle and a wad of burning paper”
That’s what Chinese medical people call “bottling.” Very common for aches and pains. I’ve had it done several times. Not for flies though!
What did one botfly say to the other botfly?
Say, you’re new around this part.
“Exactly what was the technique? “
You use the paper to heat up the air in the bottle. That creates low pressure. You put it against the skin and suction is created.
Not “bottling!” CUPPING!
Lots of Alaska is rain forest
Why I refuse to go anywhere south of Indiana.
Thank God we have a typhoid vaccine now.
So gross. Our neighbors had horses and we enjoyed watching them in the pasture but now that they have moved and there are no horses around the fly population has gone down. Just house flies now. There are still cows in the neighborhood but they don’t seem to be as much of a problem. Maybe their skin is thicker.
There are no trees above the Arctic Circle. The Alaskan “rain forest” is all along the southeast coast as far north as Prince William Sound.
Which is iffy, at best.
I had the typhoid vaccine and 9m later got resistant typhoid.
Quite common among pets and horses in the USA. Bots and wolf worms.
http://equusmagazine.com/article/beatbotflies_071807
http://www.petmd.com/cat/conditions/infectious-parasitic/c_ct_cuterebrosis
http://pets.thenest.com/causes-wolf-worm-baby-kittens-9231.html
Hate hats, but started wearing one all the time.
I’ve used insect countless times but I have never sprayed the top of my head. But them I have been blessed with a thick head of hair.
I suspected it involved sucking it out through vacuum.
Our fourth child was infested with Bot fly/Mango fly larvae when she was 11 months old. We were living in Kenya at the time and, thinking they were some sort of insect bite, showed them to elderly missionary friends from the Congo.
“Oh, those are mango fly larvae!”
“Gross! What do we do, surgery?”
“No, put a strip of adhesive tape over each hole. Wait 24 hours. The larva can’t get air, so it crawls part-way out before getting stuck on the tape.”
Sure enough, the next day we slowly pealed the adhesive tape off all 12 wounds and each either had a larva sticking to the tape or one pulled must of the way out of her skin. These we removed with tweezers.
Our daughter smiled through the entire process, except for swabbing the wound with antiseptic after larva removal.
Everyone here is talking like these are some exotic foreign thing. My sister had to deal with them on her horse’s legs and in their ears. That was in the Denver area.
I think these doctors need to go back to school if they are that amazed by botflys.
Family takes their kids for a “tropical summer vacation” in Central America. Spend your money in the US. See America First.
I lack imagination.
How do you use paper to heat the air in the bottle?
Barely a week passes without news of someone dying in the riptides on Jaco beach on the Pacific side of Costa Rica.
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