Synonyms for maggot therapy
mag·got ther·a·py

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1. maggot therapy

   Synonyms:
   Maggot debridement therapy, see there
   

2. maggot therapy

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   Surgical maggot therapy, see there
   

3. Maggot therapy

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   MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2008 Maggot Therapy Revisited Last week the WSJ posted an article on using maggots to "gag" superbugs which includes a video (don't watch if you are squeamish). For more technical details on Ratcliffe's work, there's a recent paper in the journal Microbes and Infection. Maggots' flesh-eating ways have long been used to cleaning nasty wounds. Just a few years back the FDA even decided maggots could be regulated as medical devices for prescription wound care. .......take a look at the package insert for Medical Maggots. Last October I wrote a post on maggot therapy. Here it is: When I was a general surgery resident, we had a couple of patients come in with maggots in their wounds--both with venous stasis ulcers on their legs. As "icky" as it was to clean the maggots out of the wounds, it was down right impressive how clean the wounds were (and yes it was my job to do the cleaning). Those maggots sure had done a wonderful job of removing the necrotic tissue and leaving behind healthy granulation tissue. (photo credit) So for Halloween, how about some bug therapy. Maggot therapy waxes and wanes in popularity throughout time. Ambroise Pare (1509-1590) is generally given credit for first noting the beneficial effects of maggots in suppurative wounds. Napoleon's famous military surgeon, Baron D. J. Larrey (1766-1842) noted larvae of the blue fly in the wounds of soldiers in Syria during the Egyptian expedition. He noted that the maggots only attacked putrefying substances rather than living tissues and that they promoted their cicatrization. W. W. Keen commented on the presence of maggots in wounds during the Civil War, saying that the maggots were disgusting but did no apparent harm. The first scientific study of the use of maggots was done by Dr. William S. Baer of Baltimore, Maryland. He first mentioned this "viable antiseptic" for the treatment of chronic osteomyelitis in a discussion following an article by Bitting that appeared in 1921. Baer commented on the clean wound of two soldiers with neglected compound femur fractures and abdominal wounds who had lain neglected for 7 days on the battlefields of World War I in 1917. Inspection of the wounds showed that they were infected with thousands of maggots, but had healthy granulation tissue beneath. At that time, the mortality from such wounds with the best medical care was close to 75%, and therefore the maggots made a profound impression. He went on to study maggots in detail. Maggots, by definition, are fly larvae, just as caterpillars are butterfly or moth larvae. Phaenicia sericata (green blow fly) larvae is the one used in maggot therapy. rlbatesmd.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html

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