Maggot Therapy: my Biggest Nightmare
February 25th 2008 21:00
I was playing around Wikipedia, trying to find out whether or not maggots have legs (I’ve never been close enough to one to know) when I found a web page about maggot therapy. Ugh! Now I’ve heard of the many benefits of using maggots and leeches in medicine but you would have to knock me out for several days with general anaesthetic before I would consent to having my body parts fed on by maggots, no matter how rotten the flesh on the area concerned is. The thought of literally being eaten alive by tiny, white squirmy things, feeling their little mouths chomping away on my flesh, even if it’s supposed be dead…just thinking about it brings shivers up my spine.
I remember watching a TV show which had a woman having maggot therapy. She had a wound on her ankle which refused to heal so she went to her doctor and the doctor had these “specially-bred” maggots (the TV presenter’s words, not mine) in a jar. He opened up the jar and carefully tipped the maggots out of the jar and into the wound. He then sealed up the wound. The presenter then explained that in a few days time all the dead flesh on her ankle would have been removed and she can go back to her doctor again to have the maggots taken out as well.
I just hope I never, ever have to end up with any bodily wounds that cannot heal by themselves. Which reminds me, for those having children, never call your daughter Margot or else she will spend a life time of being called Maggot at school.
For those who aren’t that squirmish, check out the link and accompanying gruesome picture below:
Maggot Therapy Link
I remember watching a TV show which had a woman having maggot therapy. She had a wound on her ankle which refused to heal so she went to her doctor and the doctor had these “specially-bred” maggots (the TV presenter’s words, not mine) in a jar. He opened up the jar and carefully tipped the maggots out of the jar and into the wound. He then sealed up the wound. The presenter then explained that in a few days time all the dead flesh on her ankle would have been removed and she can go back to her doctor again to have the maggots taken out as well.
I just hope I never, ever have to end up with any bodily wounds that cannot heal by themselves. Which reminds me, for those having children, never call your daughter Margot or else she will spend a life time of being called Maggot at school.
For those who aren’t that squirmish, check out the link and accompanying gruesome picture below:
Maggot Therapy Link
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Comment by Queenie
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I've also read about this woman who had a wound on her head and she was in hospital. The doctors decided to put leeches on her head so every now and then she would see their bodies swishing away above her eyes. Eeek!