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There are some very interesting articles in Nursing and Medical magazines, online, and research as to the pros and cons to utilizing maggots in wound care.
I haven't had the opportunity to work with them, although my nursing co-workers have.
Here in B.C. there is an issue with border control issues in regard to the maggots. They are now deemed "medical" and are not easy to get across the border anymore. Apparently UBC has offered to use their lab for the purpose of growing and making use of " medical maggots".
I am intrigued by the idea, I wonder how I would feel seeing them "working" in a wound?
Well, I am off to look at Youtube for videos of them !
No, I believe this discussion is circling around the medical application of them, pertaining to acute and chronic wounds. Both with longstanding self deficit and patients unaware of them, as well as with using them in wound management. This is prevalent in wound care in the treatment of gangrene and other open wounds that would need to be debrided of necrotic flesh, the maggots do not interfere with the new tissue, only removing dead tissue, thus encouraging the healing process in much the same platform as chemical debridement and the use of similar treatments.
Warm Regards,
Follow Your Bliss
Are you guys talking about medical maggots? They shouldn't smell. I get freaked out by things like maggots and worms, not the thing itself but tons of little things moving around is what gets me. It's a weird quirk I know, but I am the same way seeing like an ant hill that has ants swarming out of it. Bleck!
Anyway, that said. The use of maggots for medical healing is fascinating to me. Extremely effective for wounds and cheap. To bad the thought and stigma keeps it at bay because it is a great tool.
I will never be signing up to be a wound care nurse though. Give me blood and guts but please keep those infected non healing wounds away from me. :|
bubbasmom
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so my question is how many nursing students/ nurses have had to care for a patient that had maggots in a wound? im afraid that this will make me want to throw up!