ChrisCThe Flesh Eaters & Blood Suckers
September 3rd 2006 10:44
It's a bit ironic to think that, when the Third World countries are striving to improve their modern medicine services, the Westerners are actually going back to the wild world of complementary medicine and "bio-therapy"..
Sure some of them are real dodgy-like urine-therapy??(iyew!)..but others have shown tremendous results-as effective (sometimes even more) than modern medicine, and most importantly, much cheaper..
Anyway, to draw examples from House M.D. and Grey's Anatomy, let's go back to Season 2 of episodes 12: Distractions and 11: Owner of A Lonely Heart, respectively..
House M.D. sugested the use of maggots to help a burn victim recovers faster..
Yes, it is disgusting, but in fact much less painful and more effective than dressing & re-dressing the burn everyday..(you can see how painful burns are- the poor teenager practically screamed his lungs out when he was woken up from the induced coma..huhu)
The use of maggots in wound healing has been claimed to start thousand of years ago..This particular House episode, however specifically mentioned Napolean's Surgeon in Chief as one of the people who had used maggots to heal in the past..
This practice is especially common during war-what with the low costs..and the many injuries suffered by the soldiers..
Besides gangrenous wounds and burns, maggots have also been used for non-ealing ulcers, severe mastoiditis, sever lacerations,..and the list goes on..
However, the catch is, how do you know which maggots will eat the dead flesh and which will eat both dead and live flesh??..(Some places have begun breeding the right species, I heard)..
to be continued..
Source of info: Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels by Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein
Sure some of them are real dodgy-like urine-therapy??(iyew!)..but others have shown tremendous results-as effective (sometimes even more) than modern medicine, and most importantly, much cheaper..
Anyway, to draw examples from House M.D. and Grey's Anatomy, let's go back to Season 2 of episodes 12: Distractions and 11: Owner of A Lonely Heart, respectively..
Yes, it is disgusting, but in fact much less painful and more effective than dressing & re-dressing the burn everyday..(you can see how painful burns are- the poor teenager practically screamed his lungs out when he was woken up from the induced coma..huhu)
The use of maggots in wound healing has been claimed to start thousand of years ago..This particular House episode, however specifically mentioned Napolean's Surgeon in Chief as one of the people who had used maggots to heal in the past..
This practice is especially common during war-what with the low costs..and the many injuries suffered by the soldiers..
Besides gangrenous wounds and burns, maggots have also been used for non-ealing ulcers, severe mastoiditis, sever lacerations,..and the list goes on..
However, the catch is, how do you know which maggots will eat the dead flesh and which will eat both dead and live flesh??..(Some places have begun breeding the right species, I heard)..
to be continued..
Source of info: Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels by Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein
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