Patient with maggots in head

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I saw this video of a patient with maggots in his head wound:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QJNxwvvS8Y

What could have caused this? Have you ever seen such a thing?

Could the human botfly do this? Is this maggot therapy?

I heard a story from an old ER nurse about a diabetic patient with neuropathy, no sense of smell who came in with a really bad pressure sore on her sacral area, right down to the bone. The wound was full of maggots and she had to pick them all out.

We don't use maggot therapy at my hospital but some of the plastics patients who've had free flaps have leech therapy. I think it's sad that the leeches are killed after removal.

:eek: What did she pick them out with; an ice cream scooper or some tweezers??? OHHHHHHH GOOOOOSSSSSShhhhh, I am REALLY trying to find humor in this. I, too, am not easily grossed out :vomit, blood, mucus, poo-poo, no problem. Maggots in deep crevices...:eek:

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

I refuse to look... :uhoh3:

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I just saw this other video of tiny worms supposedly coming out of a man's face. I don't have any good reason to think the video is a fake, except that I have no idea what condition would cause this.

The human botfly lays its maggot egg in one spot, not all over the face like this. So what could cause this?

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