Maggots can assist in Healing Diabetic Wounds

Mon, 26 Sep 2011
Maggots can help heal diabetic wounds.

Doctors usually attempt to remove infected or dead tissue with scalpels or enzymes, a process known as debridement. However, they are often unsuccessful.

Diabetics really need better treatments to save their limbs. Maggot debridement treatment is highly effective. Even after a single treatment the wounds begin to look a lot better.

The most recent research involving diabetic wound treatment of 37 diabetics with the maggots has yet to be vetted by independent researchers.

Each study participant suffered from a type of artery disease which causes poor circulation in their limbs and they all suffered from stubborn wounds, some as old as five years old.

The doctors placed between 50 to 100 maggots, of the species Lucilia sericata, on their wounds and they remained there for two days, when they were replaced with new ones. This was repeated five times on average.

The maggots were placed in a mesh type of material so they could not escape.

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