DO NOT WATCH THESE VIDEOS IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH!!!
Maggots, although being EXTREMELY gross and TOTALLY irritating, can be a good thing when it comes to using them for medicine.
When maggots eat, they eat dead flesh. As the first video says, this tends to be the reason they have such a bad reputation. You wouldn’t want anything on you or near you that is there only because there’s rotting meat around.
Why are maggots good?
But, disinfected maggots have a medical use as well. The fact that maggots ONLY eat dead flesh and leave healthy flesh alone means that deploying maggots on a wound helps clear up the dead and rotting flesh, leaving your healthy tissue to grow and heal. This can help prevent further decay in a wound that does not heal properly.
The Informative yet GROSS videos
As I said at the top, do not watch these videos if you are queasy.
These videos are very short, documentary style videos showing the use of maggots in medicine.
You will see maggots put in open wounds, and you will see them crawling and eating the dead flesh.
Video 1 – Maggots cleaning a stomach wound
In this video, the maggots are placed in a stomach wound of a lady with diabetes.
If the wound is not cleaned and does not heal, there’s a chance infection could spread, ending in death!
Video 2 – Maggots cleaning a foot wound
Linda Frank of North Syracuse undergoes maggot therapy to treat a foot wound she suffered due to diabetes.
The maggots are left on for about 2 days, and then washed off. Here you can see the before and after effects of the maggots.
Video 3 – Maggots cleaning out a leg wound
Ending off with a little music, this video shows maggots being placed in a leg wound.
A little about this patient:
“Our patient Roy Rice is keen to let you all know that he was not aware of the maggots moving round at all. He was just glad that the biofilm was being removed painlessly and naturally, rather than having to endure more of the painful process of debridement manually with a sharp scraper. Thank you Roy. Today the heavens opened…”
This patient, Roy, had several traumatic leg wounds. The skin blistered and became infected. He was a US Army veteran.”
He has since passed away, peacefully in his sleep. He donated his body to medical science.
Okay, I just woke up today. Went to get breakfast made. I had just got bacon and pancakes out for breakfast. The boxes were sealed, but I opened them will skinny white lines all over them. So I thought they were frost bitten. I just went ahead and made my breakfast and left the room for a minute. Suddenly, my fire alarm went off. I went into the kitchen to find my food in flames. I thought that the ice had some plastic stuck to it and I just didn’t notice. Then I dicided to have a peanut butter sandwich. I opened my peanut butter and their were dead flies in it! So I got rid of that. I just got out the jelly. I opened it to find maggots in it. Apperently I had a dead rat in my kitchen and they had gotton into my food, but my food was closed all this time. I killed them with perfume. (Untill I ran out) then I use fire. It sure does kill them.