Maggot Therapy
Maggot Therapy is also known as Maggot Debridement Therapy with a short form of (MDT). Its main aim is to clean or debride wounds by dissolving the dead or some of the tissues which are highly infected, as they also kill the various bacteria by disinfecting the wounds, and lastly it stimulates healing of wounds.
Medical Maggots are used in the care and treatment of chronic wounds of humans and some of the animals. It is also used to clean and manage wounds in a procedure which always results in Maggot Therapy. You can also call this Therapy as larva therapy or larva Maggot therapy or biodebridement. Alive Maggot is put into the wounded area to clean all the dead and decaying flesh in the wounded part. The main objective of this Maggot therapy is treating foot and leg ulcer. This leg and foot ulcer mainly occurs in diabetic patients.
As Maggot therapy is related to fly larva which are just as caterpillars, moth or butterfly. These species are found in the Maggot therapy. Only your own physician can help you in assisting. Maggot therapy does not require any specialist in the technique. The removal of dead tissues and antibiotic properties not only clean the infected wounded area but it also help the wound to heal by stimulating the new as well as fresh growth. Medical maggots are a germ free laboratory – grown fly larva. This is a largely as well as a wide spread variety of non – healing wounds which includes leg and foot ulcer (pressure ulcer), stasis ulcer , as well as many types of diabetic ulcer, non- healing traumatic and post surgical wounds.
Historically maggots are known from last many of the centuries to help healing of wounds. As Maggot Debridement Therapy (MDT) was successfully performed and followed by many of the doctors and physicians. Maggot therapy was firstly introduced in United States Of America (USA) in 1931 and it was used prominently until the mid of 1930s in and around 400 to 500 hospitals. Many of the patients suffering mostly from pressure sores in the sacral area and leg ulcer they were treated by the maggots (green bottle fly) this wounded part have developed in the past 90 months, according to the physicians approximately forty to forty five wounds were located in the wounded area from the foot till the calf of the patients. They were treated in many different departments and are replaced by every one or two days.
There are some of the causes for the developments of wounds are paraplegia, hemiplegia, lymphostasis, thalassemia, and dementia. Maggots are now being found in modern surgical procedures. They send a vials in that vials each containing 1000 to 1200 maggots to the physicians around Canada and United States of America. They are the medically useful maggots which are fly larva that can be used to assist wound healing by eating the dead and decaying skin around the wounded area and are left with the tissues of the healthy skin this very process is known as debridement.
How does this maggot problem come from – as all know that maggot’s therapy introduces disinfected maggots into non – healing skin that is the soft wound of the humans and other animals? Their main aim is to eat the dead tissues before leaving alone all the live tissues. Flies starts reproducing in the month of summers and in this season maggots can come in large numbers as humans are not immune to the feeding of maggots and can get in contract with mysis. New garbage cans area the only ones through which humans are interacted between the maggots. Others are dead animals, other breeding areas of maggots, rotten food etc.
Theses maggots starts developing or growing and takes around 10 to 20 days to develop. When maggot are now turned into flies this brings the major problem as well as the life cycle also stars again some of them also create and become with very serious problems. After this (MDT) Maggot Debridement Therapy many of the patients are salvaged. This therapy is relatively a rapid and an effective treatment where large variety of wounds needs a kind of debridement or treatment as a conventional surgical intervention.
