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The Fascinating and Effective Medical Treatment of Maggot Therapy
TLDR Maggot therapy, also known as maggot debridement therapy, is a centuries-old medical treatment that involves applying live maggots to wounds to help them heal faster and cleaner. It has recently regained popularity as a complementary treatment for chronic wounds, with studies showing its effectiveness in debriding ulcers in less than 14 days.
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Maggot therapy, also known as maggot debridement therapy, larval therapy, or bio debridement, is a fascinating and effective medical treatment for wounds.
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Maggot therapy is the application of live maggots to an open wound in order to help it heal faster and cleaner, and it has been used for centuries, with the first recorded use in Western literature by a French surgeon in the 16th century.
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Maggot therapy has had a long history of being both useful and disgusting, with periods of popularity and decline, but it has recently regained traction as a complementary medical treatment.
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Maggots can be used as a last resort treatment for chronic wounds that won't heal and may prevent the need for amputation.
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Maggots can be used to clean wounds by removing dead tissue, killing bacteria, and stimulating new tissue growth.
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Maggots remove dead tissue from wounds by scraping it with their spines and secreting digestive enzymes that dissolve flesh, making them an effective method of debridement.
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The most useful maggots for wound healing are the larva of the green blowfly, and not just any maggot can be used for this purpose.
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Maggot therapy involves applying 5 to 8 maggots per square centimeter to a wound, covering them up with a bandage, and allowing them to eat and disinfect the dead flesh for 48 to 72 hours before removing them.
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Maggot therapy has been found to be effective in treating non-healing ulcers, with one study showing that debridement was achieved in less than 14 days, compared to the control group where none of the wounds were even half debrided after a month.
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Maggot therapy is not settled science, as science is never settled and it is not equipped to declare something as indisputably true.
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