Maggots are a good source of protein.
must be a democrat
when the bumps appeared on his scalp after a trip to Belize this summer...
Stay out of the turd world...It will make your scalp crawl!
Little duct tape, Vaseline and a friend who isn’t squeamish with tweezers and they will eat their way up and out in a few days.
Video of a guy with them in his back on YouTube, not for the faint of heart or stomach.
Five magots, named, Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Kerry, Murtha.
“As traumatic as this may seem, botfly infections are fairly routine in parts of Central and South America.”
Yet another reason I’m grateful to live in the U.S.A.
As traumatic as this may seem, botfly infections are fairly routine in parts of Central and South America.
Maggots are a good source of protein.
Geez, ya gotta post this at lunchtime?
Dang, I thought this was a James Carville thread.
Ohhhh...I hate when that happens..
Typical sensationalistic news reporting, worthy of Weekly World News. The story may be partly true, but the author is really using his journalistic license when he construes “under his scalp” as “inside his head.” He should have his journalistic license revoked.
Heads up on moving head bumps..........
Mr. Dallas, Mr. Soap, shake hands.
They were good for Maximus in Gladiator.
Now he has 5 holes in his head! But, that’s beside the point,,,,,
EW Factor 100 PING
I always do what the maggot-voices in my head tell me....
What is Maggot Therapy?
Maggot Debridement Therapy (MDT) is the medical use of pecially selected and tested, disinfected fly larvae (”maggots”) for cleaning non-healing wounds.
Medicinal maggots have three actions: 1) they debride (clean) wounds by dissolving the dead (necrotic), infected tissue; 2) they disinfect the wound, by killing bacteria; and 3) they stimulate wound healing.
Historically, maggots have been known for centuries to help heal wounds. Many military surgeons noted that soldiers whose wounds became infested with maggots did better -— and had a much lower mortality rate -— than did soldiers with similar wounds not infested. William Baer, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, was the first physician (an orthopedic surgeon, actually) in the U.S. to actively promote maggot therapy; his results were published posthumously by his colleagues in 1931. MDT was successfully and routinely performed by thousands of physicians until the mid-1940’s, when its use was supplanted by the new antibiotics and surgical techniques that came out of World War II. Maggot therapy was occasionally used during the 1970’s and 1980’s, when antibiotics, surgery, and other modalities of modern medicine failed. In 1989, physicians at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, CA, and at the University of California, Irvine, reasoned that if maggot therapy was effective enough to treat patients who otherwise would have lost limbs, despite modern surgical and antibiotic treatment, then we should be using maggot therapy BEFORE the wounds progress that far, and not only as a last resort.
More information can be found in the References listed below.