04-22-2007, 04:38 PM
so if u see a wiggly snuggly squirmy maggot … what would be your first thought ?? wash it away ?? eat it (yuck !! but not so yuck !! ppl do it, u know)?? .. certainly not cuddle it and adopt it as a pet 
.. but would u think of collecting it and saving it in our medicine bag besides the bandages and disinfectants ???
well look what I found on maggot therapy : (copy pasted stuff .. but quite interesting to read !!)
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 (Maggot Debridement Therapy ) 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.
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.
Veterinarians are now using maggot therapy, too. Several recent studies have shown the benefits of MDT for treating serious wounds in small animals (like dogs and cats) and larger animals (like horses). MDT has been used most extensively for equine hoof and leg infections, but also for cleaning necrotic tumor in animals so as to clean the wound and eliminate the copious amounts of foul-smelling drainage.
.. but would u think of collecting it and saving it in our medicine bag besides the bandages and disinfectants ???well look what I found on maggot therapy : (copy pasted stuff .. but quite interesting to read !!)
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 (Maggot Debridement Therapy ) 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.
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.
Veterinarians are now using maggot therapy, too. Several recent studies have shown the benefits of MDT for treating serious wounds in small animals (like dogs and cats) and larger animals (like horses). MDT has been used most extensively for equine hoof and leg infections, but also for cleaning necrotic tumor in animals so as to clean the wound and eliminate the copious amounts of foul-smelling drainage.
.. no body liked my maggoty posts sniff sniff .. i m so heart broken !!!
.... come one .. take a broader view why dont u ?? 