Nurse, the maggots [UK hospitals use of maggots for healing wounds]

The Times (UK) ^ | March 12, 2007 | by Peta Bee

[pandoraou812]

No its mine to do with as I please. I have to collect all the scraps of paper and put it together. Some of it is hard to read. She doesn't give measurements . I have some remedies from her I wrote down that are clearer. Its interesting as she had odd bits in it like cleaning with baking soda and vinegar. Some of it I have found other people know about too. One day I will sort it out and get it in order. She also used to grab a bunch of spider webs if someone was bleeding badly and put them into the wound. My grandma didn't speak English well . She had 17 children , 10 that lived. I can not in my wildest imagination see how she got to Hazleton PA from Ellis Island with two small boys without being able to read or speak English. She was also a bought bride. My grandfather bought her when she was 14 yrs old from her mother after my great grandfather was killed. He was many years older then her. She lived until she was 88 if I remember correctly. I think I better start writing my memories of her down . The farm they lived on is now part of the Suarloaf golf course. She got swindled out of her farm by a trusting neighbor. None of my relatives wanted that farm.....I guess all the hard work brought back bad memories. I sure wish I had it now.

[Grizzled Bear]

A 2004 study in the journal Gut found that patients with Crohn’s disease who swallowed a worm for a 24-week period showed significant improvement."

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Why not just have a Tequila?

[eleni121]

If maggots are so wonferful why was everybody so upset when Ann Coulter used the word?

[eleni121]

wonferful = wonderful

[Titan Magroyne]

As long as they don't get stoned too and sit around watching TV all day. Or consume the healthy new flesh with the bad on a munchie bender. :-D

[pandoraou812]

I think using the old ways can be better....My sister got a staph infection in her head years ago during a brain operation. She had to have some of her skull removed and a plate put in. She takes antibiotics everyday for it. I really don't like or trust too many doctors. If I can use a natural way to heal I do. What we went through this year with Lela was terrible. She has asthma and was on Singulair and Zyrtec. Lela was getting worse not better. Thanks to TigersEye's research and help we figured out she was having adverse side affects to these meds. Now she is just on an inhaler and is doing so much better. I really have to give credit to TigersEye because he took the time & interest into helping me when the doctors just kept telling me to give her those meds. Even the doctors have now admitted she is one of the few (so they say) children who just can not take those meds. ~P~

[null and void]

No its mine to do with as I please.

As you say. I didn't mean to presume to even sound like I was trying to boss you around.

Still, it would be interesting, and perhaps life saving for the rest of us.

[Total Package]

Their used in the US too for some burn wounds.

[Grizzled Bear]

Wow! I really hope you choose to publish. You will have a lot of Freeper customers if you do. If you do publish; please include your Grandma's story. That would really make the book special. The "Spider-Web" cure is a new one to me! It's terrible to hear about the farm. I think the cures are an even better birth-right. God bless you in all of your endeavors!

[Grizzled Bear]

I thought museums used a species of beetle to dispose of flesh off of animal bones.

[tickmeister]

Got some personal experience, and it works. Somebody dumped an old bulldog near my farm a few years ago, and he got pretty wild over a period of months. I decided to see if I could tame him, as I was couple of dogs low at the time. Meantime, somebody took a shot at him, grazed his back, and left a wound maybe 6 inches long, an inch deep, and it opened up 2 inches wide. I couldn't catch him to treat it, but I could get close enough to see that in a week or so it was totally full of maggots. He was still active, just acted as if it irritated him a bit. Eventually all the maggots disappeared, by which time he was willing to let me approach him. I sprinkled Terramycin powder on the clean wound for a couple of weeks until it healed, and he was just fine. Pretty good dog for a couple of years until he died of old age.

[metmom]

I guess some just feel it's easier to medicate the problem away than investigate and find out what's causing the problem and taking care of that.

My oldest daughter is allergic to carmine and Red Lake 7, which is in Benadryl. She breaks out with a severe hives reaction on her face and neck from it, along with breathing difficulty.

Sometimes it's the inactive ingredients that can cause problems.

[FormerACLUmember]

The government hospitals in the UK are so ancient and filthy, they don't need to import any maggots.

[goodnesswins]

I use baking powder and vinegar for cleaning! And add in hydrogen peroxide, too.....what's old is new again....and less costly, and less toxic! (Don't mix vinegar and hydr. perox. in a bottle together though!)

[353FMG]

Was the guy dead?

[diamond6]

If you ever put this book together, and want to share, can you ping me with the remedies?

Sounds fascinating.

[Grizzled Bear]

Don't mix vinegar and hydr. perox. in a bottle together though!)

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Ooooh! What happened, what happened??!!

[goodnesswins]

I haven't tried it, but I've read they shouldn't be mixed together....and on this board "I" didn't want to be responsible for any "explosions" or whatever.

[pandoraou812]

Oh no I didn't take it that way....its one of the few things I have from my babba ( grandma). I would be glad to share anything in her book. She would want other people to benefit from anything she knew. She also was a midwife for the neighbors. She was a very tiny woman who lived a very hard simple life. When she died she was still very beautiful , with no wrinkles and long white hair almost to her knees. My one son has her blue eyes. I have that now too, I really never thought of it that way. I do see her eyes when I look at his...~P~

[LibFreeOrDie]

Info about the sterile maggots used for wound treatment:

http://www.dressings.org/Dressings/larve.html

http://www.zoobiotic.com/