Posted on 11/19/2016 8:13:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
Sometimes ancient remedies are the best, even if they make you a little squeamish.
Maggots are being used again but in a new way: to save lives, limbs and money.
Some doctors think the larvae could revolutionize wound care, which costs $10 to 15 billion a year in the U.S. It’s a problem that will grow, with our growing diabetes population.
On the Ca-Hil farm out in the small town of Wild Peach in Brazoria County, it is another day. Owner Randy Harang is prepping the fields to bale hay, but for the 59-year-old, it is not just business as usual.
“I had an infection that popped up on my foot overnight.” said Harang.
In July, he learned two things: he was diabetic and doctors said, “We're gonna have to amputate your toe and part of your foot.”
The battle now was to save the rest of the rancher and farmer's foot.
At Houston Methodist Sugar Land, Dr. Nicholas Desai decided to try an ancient therapy, in a new package: fly larvae or maggots.
Dr. Desai explained, “It’s bio debridement or biosurgery. They use their mandibles to scour the wound and release these enzymes.”
Maggots eat dying or necrotic tissues exposing healthy tissue.
Biomonde grows the flies, harvests their eggs, sterilizes everything then packages the larvae in a nylon net where they can work through the material, but stay contained inside the netting.
The "bio bags" were applied like bandages onto Harang’s foot. He became the first patient in Fort Bend County to try the treatment.
Four days later, Harang was able to have a skin graft. With conventional therapy, Dr. Desai said it would have taken up to 72 days to be able to do a skin graft.
The financial savings are stunning.
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That still, small voice you hear is God saying, “You’re welcome”.
Plus, frogs love it.
Gross, and I am sure it feels disturbing and even smells bad. But it works better than anything modern science can deliver. And if it speeds things up and saves money; sign me up.
I just don’t want to see it or know about it.
Sounds like Killary and her minions may have found new jobs.
So, The PIAPS is good for something after all?
Plenty of maggots will be available after 1/19/2017. They will all be unemployed donkeys.
The used it in the Civil War.
Unconventional medicine works wonders. I have a business partner who used Chinese acupuncture after countless expensive therapy for his back problem. Worked for him and cheap.
I've always heard that people that actually had maggots used on them said the mild stimulation of them squirming around in the wound was actually quite pleasant.
Mommy why is my rice moving
My son had awful alopecia. American medicine just wanted to soak his head in powerful steroids. I put a stop to that and me and his mom sent him to China for treatment. He left 3/4 bald and came back 3 months later with a full head of hair. I’m a believer.
I’m constantly amazed at what tools God gives us. That said, if I ever need this treatment they will have to knock me out. Seeing maggots on me might cause a stroke after awhile.
Maggots and leeches tonight? What’s next?
Hmm, which is an easier crop? Pecans or Maggots?
Cure your necrosis and then eat it.
A two fer...
Awesome...
Yeah, cuz it sucked without them...
Yes. It is truly amazing what He did for us.
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