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Maggot therapy (also known as larval therapy) is a type of biotherapy involving the introduction of live, disinfected maggots (fly larvae) into non-healing skin and soft-tissue wounds of a human or other animal for the purpose of cleaning out the necrotic (dead) tissue within a wound (debridement), and disinfection. There is evidence that ...
In the American Civil War, army surgeons treated wounds by allowing blowfly maggots to clean away the decayed tissue. [citation needed] William Baer, an orthopedic surgeon at Johns Hopkins during the late 1920s, used maggot therapy to treat a series of patients with osteomyelitis, an infection of bone or bone marrow.
Maggot therapy is the intentional introduction of live, disinfected blow fly larvae into soft tissue wounds to selectively clean out the necrotic tissue. This helps to prevent infection; it also speeds healing of chronically infected wounds and ulcers. [10]
The genus Lucilia is commonly used in maggot therapy. Maggot therapy is the process of using fly larvae to treat infected wounds; it is also known as Maggot Debridement Therapy. The maggots that are used are mass-produced and disinfected. They are placed into open wounds healing on their own.
In maggot therapy, a number of small maggots are introduced to a wound in order to consume necrotic tissue, and do so far more precisely than is possible in a normal surgical operation. Larvae of the green bottle fly ( Lucilia sericata ) are used, which primarily feed on the necrotic (dead) tissue of the living host without attacking living tissue.
The Texas parks department says the maggots will lay eggs in "open wounds or orifices of live tissue such as nostrils, eyes or mouth." Such an infestation is known as New World screwworm myiasis.
MedMagLabs builds medical maggot laboratories inside shipping containers; [5] [6] their "do it yourself" designs are freely available online for anyone to replicate. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] The laboratories are designed to be operated by non-healthcare professionals, in countries with weak healthcare systems, specifically countries experiencing armed conflict.
CBS News shared some interesting news about an orangutan named Rakus who used a specific plant to treat a wound. The video was shared on Saturday, May 4th and it has people talking.