Maggots are a good source of protein.
Posted on 07/22/2008 11:20:55 AM PDT by Joiseydude
An American holidaymaker got a nasty surprise when he discovered that the lumps on his scalp were not bites or shingles, but live botfly maggots.
'I thought I was going crazy' Aaron Dallas, from Colorado, US, sought medical advice when the bumps appeared on his scalp after a trip to Belize this summer.
But it was not until the bumps started moving that doctors realised Dallas had five live maggots inside his head.
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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!
Damn! You beat me to it!
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.
LOL!
I figure they were feeding on dead matter! There could be only one choice.
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.
POST OF THE DAY!
Ohhhh...I hate when that happens..
have you seen the one removing the botfly from below the guy’s eyelid?
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.
As traumatic as this may seem, botfly infections are fairly routine in parts of Central and South America.
That's right. I heard of people traveling in South America who think they got mosquito bit or something like that, lo and behold they got a little maggot living inside them. Yet It IS very common in that region.
Heads up on moving head bumps..........
LOL!! That was my first thought. Maggots feed on dead tissue.
Nope, sounds interesting though.
Please don’t insult maggots.
Mr. Dallas, Mr. Soap, shake hands.
They were good for Maximus in Gladiator.
You kidding, at Weekly World News or Sky News, this type of 'creativity' would be worthy of a raise.
Now he has 5 holes in his head! But, that’s beside the point,,,,,
LOL
EW Factor 100 PING
My wife has been bugging me for years to go on an African Safari. Everytime she brings it up I ask her if she's considered yet again, that most Africans have so little regard for human life that they could kill you in a second and the very next instant forget that you ever existed in the first place.
Not to mention the disease, corruption and other crime that goes on in that hell on Earth.
I'll never set foot on that continent and I'll live a happy (and probably longer) life anyway.
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.
When we first moved to Kenya our 11 month old daughter developed “pimples”. We were astounded to learn that these were bot fly larvae.
A bit of adhesive tape over each one, wait 24 hours then peal the tape off. The larvae either came out stuck to the tape or was pulled out far enough to be grabbed with tweezers. Revolting, but she was fine and had no problems with infection.
I don’t know if people get them in the US, but I had a horse that got one in Eastern Oregon when I was a kid. They are yucky - in that case, the vet just had us wait it out - presumably safer for the horse?? It was right where the saddle hit him and as I recall, it took a couple of weeks for it to mature and fly away.
“Video of a guy with them in his back on YouTube, not for the faint of heart or stomach”
I’ve seen that. They left a big holes.
AMEN. I always wondered about those idealistic kids who go into the Peace Corps or similar outfits. I suspect many of them come back infected with larvae or intestinal parasites. Noble of them, I guess, but I sure wouldn't do it.
I know, that huge abscess left behind just CAN’T be good for you...
Friend came back from Belize with one in his leg. Oh man that was gross. But in your scalp??!! I’d have gone mad when I try to rest my weary head to sleep.
I thought they diagnosed Kennedy with a tumor...
Those maggots clean infected and dead flesh. Botflies, on the other hand, eat into healthy, living flesh.
Kittens get bot fly eggs on occasion. Old southern people refer to them as “wolves”.
Nasty critters...Nasty wounds too.
See boys and girls ???
This is what HAPPENS when you vote Democrat !!! :^D
Maggots are a good source of protein.
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I did not know there was a difference.
Thanks for pointing it out to me.
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