maggots, ye olde new antibiotics....

[nemesiss]

i read this article....

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/12/how-maggots-heal-wounds.html

Maggots are efficient consumers of dead tissue. They munch on rotting flesh, leaving healthy tissue practically unscathed. Physicians in Napoleon's army used the larvae to clean wounds. In World War I, American surgeon William Baer noticed that soldiers with maggot-infested gashes didn't have the expected infection or swelling seen in other patients. The rise of penicillin in the 1940s made clinical maggots less useful, but they bounced back in the 1990s when antibiotic-resistant bacteria created a new demand for alternative treatments. In 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved maggot therapy as a prescription treatment.

Although anecdotal reports suggested that maggots curb inflammation, no one had scientifically tested the idea. So a team led by surgical resident Gwendolyn Cazander of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands siphoned samples of maggot secretions from disinfected maggots in the lab and added them to donated blood samples from four healthy adults. The researchers then measured the levels of so-called complement proteins, which are involved in the body's inflammatory response.

How do you guys feel on the usage of maggots?

 

[Inferno]

If it works, why not?
If we're too stupid to realize how antibiotic-resistance works and create resistant organisms, then we don't deserve anything else.

 

[australopithecus]

Maggots are fine with me. If they do the job then that's all that matters.