Maggots for Diabetic Ulcers
Filed in archive General Health by Florence Cardinal on May 07, 2007

Researchers from the University of Manchester are ridding diabetic patients of the drug-resistant superbug MRSA by treating their ulcers with maggots. The treatment, documented in the journal Diabetes Care, used green-bottle fly larvae to treat diabetic patients whose foot ulcers were contaminated with MRSA. After three weeks, all the patients but one were cured, a much quicker result than the 28-week duration of the conventional treatment.Professor Andrew Boulton, in the Science Blog, had this to say about maggots:
"They have been used since the Napoleonic Wars and in the american civil warthey found that those who survived were the ones with maggots in their wounds: they kept them clean. They remove the dead tissue and bacteria, leaving the healthy tissue to heal.
"Still, we were very surprised to see such a good result for MRSA. There is no reason this cannot be applied to many other areas of the body, except perhaps a large abdominal wound."
So, hey! It might be gross, but my husband was diabetic and he had ulcers on his legs. Those ulcers were pretty gross, too.
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