PODIATRIST USES MAGGOTS TO HEAL WOUNDS

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It’s the spooky season for creepy crawlies, but maggots? Tucson Medical Center recently used them to help keep a patient from having surgery. According to KOLD, it’s a method doctors say could be used more. She had wounds on both sides of both ankles, very severe wounds, and she had several medical conditions that make her immunocompromised,” said Erika Huston, DPM, a podiatrist on-call at TMC. Dr. Huston and nurse practitioner Ashlee Garcia treated a woman who had infections in her leg wounds and actually came in with live maggots on one of them, giving the medical team an idea.

 

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Dr. Erica Huston

 

The maggots are carefully placed and left for about two days, during which time they eat the dead tissue. The patient had an antibiotic IV to help with infections and the medical team urges people to not try to treat wounds with maggots themselves. “The free-range maggots, as we call them, are not sterile. You do not want to stick your foot out and hope a fly lands on it … It’s not sanitary,” Dr. Huston said.

 

Source: KOLD News 13 [10/15/21]

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News

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