Posted on 10/15/2021 11:42:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A tiny container of maggots made a world of difference for an Arizona woman facing surgery.
Dr. Erika Huston at Tuscon Medical Center said the patient had severe wounds on both sides of both ankles that became infected.
Although the original plan called for surgery to clean maggots and dead tissue from the wounds, Huston told KOLD she "took the dressings off the wound the next day and the maggots had cleaned the wounds significantly."
(Excerpt) Read more at ksbw.com ...
EUA or FDA okay?
The right type of maggots will only eat dead tissue and can get right to the border of live and dead tissue in a way a surgeon can’t. Just don’t get horse worms or you might need some illegal horse dewormer.
The scene from Gladiator keeps playing in my head.
Maggots consume necrotic flesh, and leeches help blood flow to reattached, severed digits.
Known about since at least the 1700s...
Yes, great gifts God gave us. And we have only only grazed the suffer of what dogs can do in medicine.
It’s mighty disgusting... but it works.
Green-bottle flies are everybody’s friend, when skin infection exists.
They are amazing.
It seems as though most solutions are already around us, we just need to find/uncover them.
My former professor was modeling some tech based off of a certain moths eyeball and a cicada’s wings. Amazing stuff...
https://phys.org/news/2007-10-moths-cicadas-solar-cells.html
OMG. We’re regressing to the dark ages.
Can leaches aid in blood letting?
“and leeches help blood flow to reattached, severed digits.”
If you had a shiner or a bad bruise you wanted to get rid of, you could buy leeches in a local, old-fashion drug store.
Both featured in the 7th grade biology book I taught from. Kids loved it in a gross kind of way.
So Joe Biden is now a surgeon?
My GG Grampa Cheavens took a yankee mini-ball in the knee at the Battle of Springfield.
The wound became infected, and subsequently infested with maggots.
He attributed his survival to the maggots cleaning the wound before it turned gangrenous.
I don’t get it. How could Democrats, leftists and globalists possibly prevent surgery except by forbidding the “unvaxxed” access to hospitals?
Pooch doing a better job than Xiden does at his.
Kids like gross. :)
I hadn’t thought of that.
Nowadays, I just try not to get in any fist fights...
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