A morning of delight and ebullience! While tracking down a patient for my medical student to interview today, an attending referred me to one of his inpatients...a gentleman with chronic intravenous drugs abuse who'd been injecting in his leg presented to the hospital with a gangrenous ulcer of the lower exremity. Evidently he'd failed antibiotic treatment, so a novel approach--one that's been used in Britain for several years now--was tried...
Maggots. Sterile maggots. Wiggling, squirming, chomping away at necrotic tissue under his dressing!
At the risk of offending my readers with a weaker constitution, I've elected not to include pictures of maggot therapy. But for the brave, check out this link! It's impressive!
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Cool site! Do they eventually remove the maggots?
AHHHHH. Why even post the link Jonathan? Why???
Unbelievable link and wonderful results!!
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I noticed the fungal toenail problems on the ulcerated foot. Should abbdgh beware?
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