Maggots Will Soon Be Sent to War Zones to Heal the Injured

livescience ^ | January 10, 2019 05:30pm ET | Laura Geggel,

[albie]

I wouldn’t want to be the delivery boy.

[Libloather]

Fly them in?

[Chickensoup]

Fly them in?

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thank you. smile.

[nikos1121]

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.

[MayflowerMadam]

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.

[DIRTYSECRET]

DOPE SMOKING FM TYPES?

[oldvirginian]

Everything old is new again.

[P.O.E.]

[Cloverfarm]

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.

[mewzilla]

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

[Openurmind]

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.

[mewzilla]

Maggots, leeches. All in a day’s work for Dr. Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser!

[eartick]

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

[Candor7]

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

[subterfuge]

How will sending Chuckle Schumer in help the wounded heal?

[Alas Babylon!]

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

[Right Wing Assault]

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.

[ps425dc]

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

[MayflowerMadam]

Interesting. Thanks.