Posted on 12/06/2012 9:07:50 PM PST by neverdem
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.
Now we know to look for a rotted log and don’t leave them on the wound too long.
Cold cuts external bleeding already. Medical treatment facilities have maggot eggs stored on hand.
Flies in summer have it as their usual job the finding of dead flesh. They come to you.
They do tickle a bit as they do their work. It is one way to clean up frostbite damage. I stay south of Interstate 10 now.
Wouldn’t those little suckers itch like hell, and smell really bad when they get squished under the dressing?
Maybe the lib-dem maggots will clean
the national wound that is “conservative”
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>>Wouldn’t those little suckers itch like hell, and smell really bad when they get squished under the dressing?
Smell bad? Itchy? You mean compared to rotting, putrid, necrotic flesh? Don’t forget, this isn’t therapy for even little injury. It’s often an alternative to amputation. Itchy or gangrene would be a pretty easy choice. As to getting squished, I don’t know for sure, but would think those kinds of wounds would not be allowed (and would be too painful it happened) to have much pressure applied to them.
BTW, this seems to be gaining popularity treating infections inside horse’s hooves where removing infected, necrotic tissue must be extremely difficult.
In winter, you won’t of course. In the warmer months, just leave the open wound exposed while you sleep and let nature take its course. All it takes is a single fly to land and lay eggs, and you’ll be good to go. I’d guess you’d find more flies near water sources, just because they’ll be following the animals which gather there.
The trick then is to remove the maggots (all of them) once they’ve eaten away the necrotic flesh. Once they start hurting, and drawing blood, it’s time to pick them out and clean the wound.
The kind of wound this is used on, is when the flesh is already dead and dying. Dead flesh doesn’t have any nerve endings, so you wouldn’t feel anything while they are working on that. They prefer the dead and rotting flesh, so they eat that stuff first, and then when they start on the part you can feel, it’s time to get them out of there.
Ping to Kartographer for preppers use. (What to do with those logs to rotten to toss in the stove).
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?
Nah. I'd rather let you do it - wouldn't want to deprive you of the opportunity to whine about it.
I was laughing when I wrote that!! Thanks for inspiring me to do it right!
Well, you oughta put a little smiley there in those situations. Sorry for being testy!
Ping... (Thanks, neverdem!)
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