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Maggots in Medicine: A Healing Approach

Explore the use of maggots in medicine, from historical practices to modern applications. Learn about maggot therapy, its benefits, and how it works. Discover the case studies and clinical use of sterile maggots in wound care. Delve into the fascinating world of biotherapy with live, disinfected larvae. Join the conversation on the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of maggot debridement therapy. Witness the healing power of maggots in clearing out dead tissue and promoting wound healing.

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Maggots in Medicine: A Healing Approach

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  1. MAGGOTS • A presentation by Coleman Myers

  2. Maggots in Medicine • The use of maggots in medicine has become more and more prevalent in the modern medical world. • The clinical use of sterile maggots under the brand name LarveE has increased steadily in the UK and US since they were introduced in late 1995.

  3. A Brief History • Mayan Indians and Aborigine tribes in Australia were said to have used maggots to clear open wounds out of dead tissue • Maggots may have also been used in Renaissance times • In 1829, Napoleon’s surgeon General noticed that open wounds with bott-flies actually healed better than those wounds without!

  4. Maggot Therapy • Maggot therapy is also known as maggot debridement therapy (MDT), larval therapy, larva therapy, larvae therapy, biodebridement or biosurgery • It is a type of biotherapy involving the introduction of live, disinfected maggots (fly larvae) into the non-healing skin and soft tissue wound(s) of a human or animal for the purpose of cleaning out the necrotic (dead) tissue within a wound (debridement) and disinfection.

  5. How does it work? • The maggots only eat on dead flesh so when put into open wounds they feast on the dead infected flesh and leave the wound clean and ready to be treated. • Without maggots in cases of a severe wound that, if sew shut, could cause an abscess

  6. Where in modern science is it used? A case of 41 year-old Buerger's disease A case of 64 year-old diabetic gangrene

  7. Model • 1. Dead and infected tissue in an open wound • 2. Maggots put into wounds • 3. Maggots feast for a minimum of 48 hours • 4.Dead and infected flesh cleared out

  8. Coleman’s Summary Slide • Maggot are gross. • Maggots are really inexpensive to use. • Doctors who use maggots have “sterile” maggots. • Maggots have been used on and off in modern medicine since the 1800s!

  9. References! • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xt6NWkgydM • http://www.btmcl.com/eng/ • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11842471 • http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2006/Myiasis/history.html

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