Here’s the problem: they make me scream and flail about in panic. I’d have to be very heavily sedated.
Yes I think I’ll wait for the synthetic maggot secretion drug, myself.
>>Here’s the problem: they make me scream and flail about in panic. I’d have to be very heavily sedated.
You would never see them unless you peeked. They’d be under a full dressing.
Where this therapy is particularly beneficial is a wound that is in a place where it is difficult to cut away diseased tissue.
I was going to post these photos but decided not to as they might upset some people. Nevertheless, they are worth a look - and ponder if maggots weren’t used, what would have been the alternative?
http://cares4umy.blogspot.com/2011/04/maggot-debridement-therapy.html
I had an uncle who fought in WWII and whose leg, wounded in combat, the doctors attempted to remove the gangrene of with maggots in an attempt to avoid amputating it. Unfortunately they forgot to first clue in said uncle, who freaked when one of the little critters wriggled out of the bandage.
I’ve heard varying accounts of how well this works. Some report that the maggots can eat TOO much from a wound, going at the living flesh and becoming counterproductive, if left there too long.
They are coming back as a wound debrider. Eating only dead flesh, raised in sterile conditions put on a sterile gauge and applied periodically to wound...very tiny when first put on infected wounds.... One of my nurse friends at another hospital had a bum broungh to her floor, ER wouldn’t debride open sores. She sat with a bottle of alchol and tweezers to pick off the maggots. She said it was the cleanest wound she ever saw....
Oh, does this mean that you have to shove a bunch of Democrats up your butt if you want to get rid of Hemmorhoids?
MY reaction isn't quite as strong as yours, nevertheless, I hear you on the sedation part.
Do what they need to do and wake me up when it's over.
I feel the say way. I am glad that maggots are available but if I ever need them, I’d have to be sedated until they finish their work.