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25.04.2018 12:32:15
Admittedly, the word "madness therapy" does not sound very appealing. However, fly maggots can actually help with poorly healing wounds when all other measures have failed. The madness therapy counts as well as the leech therapy and the nibbling therapy for biosurgery.
The maggots of the golden flyer Lucilia serica are often prescribed medically because they eat dead and diseased tissue and thus clean wounds. This benefits just wounds that do not want to heal and otherwise may lead to an amputation of limbs.
This particularly affects diabetics with foot problems (diabetic gangrene) or people who have contracted multi-drug pathogens in the hospital, where antibiotics can not do anything and the immune system comes to a standstill.
Biosurgery has a long history
The maggots herapie was already used by the natives of Australia and the Maya in Central America. In the First World War, a British field doctor discovered the healing properties of the fly maggots, as wounded soldiers came after days of transport with wounds full of maggots in his hospital. Her wounds were sparkling clean and healed quickly.
When the antibiotics were invented, the madness therapy fell into oblivion for a while. However, as the bacterial pathogens became increasingly resistant to antibiotics, they reconsidered the helpful animals about 20 years ago.
The maggots feed on dead tissue
The fly eggs are sterilized before the grubby babies hatch. After hatching, the maggots get into a sterile nutrient solution and are sent to hospitals and doctors. There they are either given directly into wounds or placed in a kind of tea bag made of polyvinyl foam or gauze on the wound.
The animals excrete a digestive secretion that liquefies dead tissue. Then they absorb this mixture. The maggots feed exclusively on dead tissue, the healthy tissue is spared.
Meanwhile, it has been scientifically proven that their intestinal gases have antibiotic properties. The gas cloud inhibits the growth of those bacteria that prevent wound healing. After two to three days, the gnawed maggots are removed and drowned in alcohol. Then fresh and hungry maggots are used as needed.
Your initial disgust will quickly go away
Side effects include tingling and itching. One-quarter of all sufferers experience pain during treatment that is treated with analgesics. The initial fear of contact disappears quickly, because the first relief comes quickly.
Mad therapy is classified as a prescription medicine. The maggots must be officially approved as finished medicinal products. In order for the health insurance company to cover the costs, the maggots must be prescribed by a doctor.
The special laboratories that bring such maggots on the market, working on a maggot spray in which the active ingredients of maggots stuck. This could then simply be sprayed on the wounds and the whole therapy would have lost its Ekligkeit. That is still a dream of the future.
