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Maggots Will Soon Be Sent to War Zones to Heal the Injured
livescience ^ | January 10, 2019 05:30pm ET | Laura Geggel,

Posted on 01/12/2019 4:35:55 AM PST by BenLurkin

Once these larvae — often those of green bottle blowflies — are connected with patients, they get right to work, keeping wounds contamination-free by gulping down dead human tissue and spreading their antibacterial saliva.

This macabre treatment may sound unusual, but it's actually a remedy that dates back to ancient times. For instance, the Australian Aboriginal peoples used maggots to clean wounds. And during World War I, soldiers in trenches also used the critters.

To roll out "project maggot," the U.K. will have field hospitals raise maggots on location. Once the fly eggs are laid, they will be sterilized and then incubated for a day or two. At that point, the maggots are ready for prime time, when they can be put directly into wounds or placed in BioBags, which are then wrapped around injuries, The Telegraph reported.

Sterile maggots are very valuable in places that have limited or basic medical treatment. These bug babies can digest dead and damaged tissue from the wound, according to a 2012 report in the Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery. Maggots can even cleanse wounds faster than surgeons can, Live Science previously reported.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: maggots
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1 posted on 01/12/2019 4:35:55 AM PST by BenLurkin
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I wouldn’t want to be the delivery boy.


2 posted on 01/12/2019 4:38:24 AM PST by albie
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To: BenLurkin

Fly them in?


3 posted on 01/12/2019 4:38:34 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question the question?- name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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Fly them in?

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thank you. smile.


4 posted on 01/12/2019 4:39:26 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m a wound care Doc. Maggots have been used to treat wounds since Egyptian times. In fact, some patients come to us with maggots.

Of course the maggots are sterile and shipped to us from maggot farms.

Don’t understand the point of this article.


5 posted on 01/12/2019 4:53:20 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: BenLurkin

Seems I heard that leaches are veing used again in legit medicine for some purpose. Maybe to hp stop bleeding or something; can’t recall for sure.


6 posted on 01/12/2019 4:53:56 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam

DOPE SMOKING FM TYPES?


7 posted on 01/12/2019 4:57:20 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: BenLurkin

Everything old is new again.


8 posted on 01/12/2019 4:58:27 AM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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9 posted on 01/12/2019 4:59:22 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: MayflowerMadam

That’s true. Cousin, a nurse, was telling me about it. I think one of her patients needed leeches around the eye, after surgery for facial injuries, to reduce swelling in such a tender area. She was telling me all the creepy details and I was thinking, “Thank you, Lord, that I never went into nursing ...” even though, as farmers, we’ve had plenty of animated discussions at meals about cow manure, calf diarrhea, retained placenta’s, etc.


10 posted on 01/12/2019 5:00:56 AM PST by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: MayflowerMadam

https://www.click2houston.com/news/medical-leeches-help-some-botched-cosmetic-surgery-patients-heal


11 posted on 01/12/2019 5:01:13 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

They are used to help pull blood flow into extremities when good flow is restricted for some reason. It can prevent gangrene in some cases such as severed and reattached limbs.


12 posted on 01/12/2019 5:02:51 AM PST by Openurmind
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Maggots, leeches. All in a day’s work for Dr. Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser!


13 posted on 01/12/2019 5:03:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Cloverfarm

Yeah and a good graphic prolapse is great for discussion around the dinner table where I grew up.


14 posted on 01/12/2019 5:18:50 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: BenLurkin

They work wonders, but the smell.....yech! Putrid.


15 posted on 01/12/2019 5:26:04 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: BenLurkin

How will sending Chuckle Schumer in help the wounded heal?


16 posted on 01/12/2019 5:30:45 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: BenLurkin

Leftists and democrats? Driveby reporters? These maggots have zero purpose!


17 posted on 01/12/2019 5:39:19 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (I can always count on some FReeper to paint a dark cloud above the silver lining. --Moonman62)
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Maggots have been used to treat wounds since Egyptian times.

Yes. When people who don't know much discover something that is well known, they think it is news.

18 posted on 01/12/2019 5:39:29 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: BenLurkin

If they send all the leeches and maggots to war zone, who will stay behind in Washington DC to run the country?


19 posted on 01/12/2019 5:47:53 AM PST by ps425dc
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To: mewzilla

Interesting. Thanks.


20 posted on 01/12/2019 5:51:38 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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