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Yikes....don't get an infection

Poet deVine

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Hurricane Alley

0 posted 2004-02-23 03:12 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/23/offbeat.maggots.antibiotics.reut/index.html

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

1 posted 2004-02-23 03:58 PM

Ewwwww....them, AND leaches!

Marshalzu

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since 2001-02-15

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Lurking

2 posted 2004-02-24 05:46 AM

I bet you are all really jealous of the National Health Service now

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

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3 posted 2004-02-24 09:13 AM

ah yes...

that is disgusting..

I was not expecting it to be so disgusting...

(SNL fans...will get that).

Jamie
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Blue Heaven

4 posted 2004-02-24 03:01 PM

sometimes the cure IS worse than the ailment

yuk--nasty

serenity blaze
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5 posted 2004-02-24 04:59 PM

I'd seen this on a television show awhile back. As disgusting as it is, I did think it made as much sense as some of the poisonous chemical therapies that are offered. (so sayeth the recently "napalmed")

I just wouldn't want to know about it.

*shudder*

Titia Geertman
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since 2001-05-07

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Netherlands

6 posted 2004-03-06 02:49 PM

Must be very special maggots then, because the common maggots I know, eat through a healthy sheep and kill it. Every year when it's hot and damp, I'm on the look out for those nasty fellows in my flock. Not a pretty sight if those big green flies they 'catch' one and lay their eggs in the fleece.

Oh well, maybe we're going back to 'bleedings' too???

Titia

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mariee66
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Recess, OfYourMind

7 posted 2004-05-13 09:43 AM

I learned quite a bit about this type of therapy while in school--not sure if they are special maggots, but I have seen the results of maggot therapy, and you'd be surprised. People are less likely to have amputations due to a wound that wouldn't heal, with this therapy, and the cost for management of the wound is less too. The therapy does seem gross--I personally wouldn't want to handle the maggots or the dressing!

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