Maggot therapy involves the use of maggots of the green-bottle fly, which are introduced into a wound to remove necrotic, sloughy and/or infected tissue. Maggots can also be used to maintain a clean wound after debridement if a particular wound is considered prone to re-sloughing.
Doctors and tissue viability specialists who have found that maggots are able to cleanse wounds much more rapidly than conventional dressings have reintroduced the technique into modern medicine.
They physically feed on dead tissue and release special chemicals into the wound that break down dead tissue into a liquid form that the maggot can easily remove and digest. The feeding maggot also takes up bacteria, during this process, which are then destroyed within their gut. It is an effective process that the larvae can often clean a wound within a few days.
can@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
They’re really good at eating dead rotting flesh?
spiderman@ani.social 2 years ago
like dead body’s?
can@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Nope:
Source
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 years ago
does it tickle when they eat you
alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Burn victims