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Could Maggots Help Prevent Surgery? It Worked for This Patient
KSBW ^ | Oct 15, 2021 | Jocelyn Brumbaugh

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 ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: arizona; maggots; surgery
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1 posted on 10/15/2021 11:42:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

EUA or FDA okay?


2 posted on 10/15/2021 11:43:04 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


3 posted on 10/15/2021 11:47:35 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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To: nickcarraway

The scene from Gladiator keeps playing in my head.


4 posted on 10/15/2021 11:47:39 AM PDT by fwdude (Proudly UNvaxxed )
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To: nickcarraway

Maggots consume necrotic flesh, and leeches help blood flow to reattached, severed digits.


5 posted on 10/15/2021 11:49:05 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Known about since at least the 1700s...


6 posted on 10/15/2021 11:50:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: EEGator

Yes, great gifts God gave us. And we have only only grazed the suffer of what dogs can do in medicine.


7 posted on 10/15/2021 11:51:36 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

It’s mighty disgusting... but it works.


8 posted on 10/15/2021 11:54:43 AM PDT by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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To: nickcarraway
And we have only only grazed the suffer of what dogs can do in medicine.


9 posted on 10/15/2021 11:55:37 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: nickcarraway

Green-bottle flies are everybody’s friend, when skin infection exists.

They are amazing.


10 posted on 10/15/2021 11:56:42 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: nickcarraway

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


11 posted on 10/15/2021 11:57:25 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: rktman

OMG. We’re regressing to the dark ages.

Can leaches aid in blood letting?


12 posted on 10/15/2021 12:01:02 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: EEGator

“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.


13 posted on 10/15/2021 12:01:58 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: EEGator

Both featured in the 7th grade biology book I taught from. Kids loved it in a gross kind of way.


14 posted on 10/15/2021 12:02:42 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: nickcarraway

So Joe Biden is now a surgeon?


15 posted on 10/15/2021 12:05:08 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


16 posted on 10/15/2021 12:11:05 PM PDT by Augie
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t get it. How could Democrats, leftists and globalists possibly prevent surgery except by forbidding the “unvaxxed” access to hospitals?


17 posted on 10/15/2021 12:11:32 PM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (I)
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To: freedumb2003

Pooch doing a better job than Xiden does at his.


18 posted on 10/15/2021 12:12:05 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: mware

Kids like gross. :)


19 posted on 10/15/2021 12:18:13 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ryderann

I hadn’t thought of that.

Nowadays, I just try not to get in any fist fights...


20 posted on 10/15/2021 12:19:08 PM PDT by EEGator
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