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	Maggot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maggot Brain is a 1971 album by the American funk band Funkadelic.
		Farmer Maggot is a character in the Lord of the Rings by J.
		Maggots is a name given to the fans of the metal band Slipknot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maggot (218 words)

	Maggot therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maggot Therapy, also known as Maggot Debridement Therapy (MDT), is the medicinal use of live maggots or fly larvae for cleaning the necrotic tissue out of non-healing wounds.
		In recent years, however, use of specially sanitized maggots has developed as a treatment for various types of wounds such as leg ulcers and pressure sores, gangrene and other bacterial infestations, since the maggot will only eat the dead rotting infected flesh and leave the living flesh intact.
		Maggot therapy was occasionally used during the 1970s and 1980s, when antibiotics, surgery, and other modalities of modern antibiotics and surgical techniques failed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maggot_therapy (732 words)

	Emerson Ecologics - Maggot Therapy Speeds Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
		Maggot therapy was the standard treatment for debriding and healing wounds in the 1930s; however, it has become less popular in the last 40 years.
		Maggot therapy has recently been reexamined for its potential usefulness in the treatment of wounds that are difficult to heal, such as pressure ulcers, ulcers caused by poor circulation in the veins of the legs (venous stasis ulcers), and diabetic foot ulcers.
		Maggot therapy was administered by placing disinfected fly larvae into the wound and covering it with unmedicated dressings.
	www.emersonecologics.com /Newswire.asp?id=483 (737 words)

	European Tissue Repair Society - Larval Therapy
		In combination with surgery, maggot therapy was used during the early decades of this century for treating osteomyelitis and purulent soft tissue infections.
		Maggot therapy was also featured on the front pages of The Wall Street Journal and The Times, in London; and television audiences throughout Europe and North America watched medicinal maggots at work.
		Maggot therapy is recognized to work by three main actions: debridement, or liquefaction of necrotic tissue; disinfection; and hastened wound healing.
	www.etrs.org /bulletin7_3/section12.html (1131 words)

	Maggot Therapy: Is It Viable In Wound Care?
		Maggot therapy is more commonly used in the United Kingdom and much of the literature is case-type studies and clinical experiences.
		Maggot therapy is complicated, has not been proven superior in its efficacy and clearly has an associated “yuck” factor.
		Maggot therapy may be limited to teaching institutions and few clinical practices because many people still consider it unconventional treatment.
	www.podiatrytoday.com /article/895 (2249 words)

	LiveScience.com - Maggots and Leeches: Old Medicine is New
		Mitchell found a dermatologist willing to perform the procedure, and soon had 600 live maggots wriggling inside the wound on her left foot, 400 in her right, where they were sealed in gauze and left for two days.
		Maggot debridement therapy was popular in the early part of the last century but went out of vogue when antibiotic use became widespread.
		Maggot therapy is just one example of a medical approach called biotherapy -- the use of living animals to aid in medical diagnosis or treatment.
	www.livescience.com /humanbiology/050419_maggots.html (938 words)

	e.Peak (5/6/2000) news: maggot therapy: healing wounds with worms
		Maggot therapy is making a comeback in modern medicine, and one of its leading experts, Dr. Ron Sherman of the University of California, Irvine, visited SFU last week to talk about it.
		The maggots therefore have a natural antibacterial power, which is taken advantage of in maggot therapy.
		But, as Dr. Sherman explains, "Measurements of the efficacy of maggot therapy are a bit difficult." It's not enough in clinical medicine to say "90 per cent of the patients got better," or simply observe that something "works".
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2000-2/issue5/ne-scimaggots.html (837 words)

	Bibliography
		Maggot therapy for the treatment of gangrene and osteomyelitis (in Hebrew).
		Maggot therapy: a review of the therapeutic applications of fly larvae in human medicine, especially for treating osteomyelitis.
		Maggot therapy for treating pressure ulcers in spinal cord injury patients.
	biotherapy.md.huji.ac.il /bibliography.htm (376 words)

	Maggot Therapy Re-Emerging
		Maggot debridement therapy is exactly what it sounds like: live fly larvae are mixed into a wound's dressing and the area is covered with gauze.
		Maggot therapy is not new, having been used by such individuals as Napoleon's battlefield doctors.
		Sherman raises maggots himself, in a special room at the hospital dubbed the "insectary," in which rotting pieces of meat are left out for flies to lay eggs on.
	www.humboldt.edu /~jcb10/maggot.html (1464 words)

	MAGGOT DEBRIDEMENT THERAPY (MDT)
		Maggot therapy seems to be a safe and effective treatment of necrosis in the diabetic foot ulcers.
		The maggots were in a wound of a patient with a recurrent squamous cell carcinoma.
		Destruction of pyogenic bacteria in the alimentary tract of surgical maggots implanted in infected wounds.
	biotherapy.md.huji.ac.il /churchsliterature.htm (9989 words)

	Maggot Therapy
		But the humble maggot, which is the immature stage of a fly, may have a lot to offer the field of medicine in the 21st century.
		However, it wasn't until the 1920's that therapeutic experimentation with maggots was instigated by William Baer, a clinical professor in orthopaedic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, whose unorthodox methods were successful in the treatment of osteomyelitis and pyogenic wounds.
		Persistent requests for sterile maggots from throughout Australia encouraged the Department of Medical Entomology at ICPMR to maintain a colony of the blow fly Lucilia sericata (the species most widely used for MDT) and establish a procedure for surface sterilisation of the maggots.
	medent.usyd.edu.au /projects/maggott.htm (660 words)

	Creepy-Crawly Care: Science News Online, Oct. 23, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Some patients did not receive maggot therapy because they, their family members or their primary physicians rejected the idea or because their wounds responded satisfactorily to conventional treatments.
		During the first 2 weeks of maggot therapy, sometimes combined with conventional treatment, the average percentage of each wound covered by necrotic tissue fell markedly, and 36 percent of those wounds ultimately closed completely.
		Presurgical maggot debridement of soft tissue wounds is associated with decreased rates of postoperative infection.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20041023/bob9.asp (2519 words)

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		Maggots are being used more and more frequently as a safe, effective means of speeding healing in patients recovering from serious wounds.
		In the first half of the 20th century, maggot debridement therapy was used by thousands of surgeons in hundreds of hospitals throughout the world.
		Some worried that the maggots would escape into their homes or in public, and one patient remained so anxious about this that treatment had to be discontinued.
	www.mercola.com /2001/sep/29/maggot_therapy.htm (713 words)

	Letters to the Editor: Maggot debridement therapy for diabetic foot ulcer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Also, MDT reportedly averted the need for limb amputation in at least 5 patients with diabetic foot ulcers as well as avoiding septicemia in patients with deep wounds that are highly susceptible to infection.
		Maggot therapy for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers.
		Maggot therapy for treating diabetic foot ulcers unresponsive to conventional therapy.
	www.residentandstaff.com /article.cfm?ID=180 (525 words)

	The World Today Archive - Maggot therapy gains acceptance in UK health system
		Surgeons say maggot therapy is preventing patients from having infected arms and legs amputated.
		But Britain's ailing health service is so impressed with the results of maggot therapy it is now permitting suburban GPs to write a prescription for maggots so that with the help of a nurse they can be applied at home.
		TONY FOWLER: Maggots are actually used to treat any type of wound, pressure ulcers or leg ulcers or any types of wounds that contain (inaudible) necrotic material, dead tissue.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1051346.htm (607 words)

	A Moment of Science: Maggot Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The maggots even wiggled out of the wound when their work was done, collecting on the dressing to be thrown away.
		So as maggots clean dead tissue out of a wound, they prevent the spread of bacteria and make room for healthy tissue to regenerate.
		Maggots fight infection in wounds so well that doctors relied on them for a couple decades after World War I, until modern antibiotics provided a less creepy alternative.
	amos.indiana.edu /library/scripts/maggot.html (214 words)

	Maggot Therapy - Los Angeles Podiatrist and Foot Doctor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Day 3: Maggots have grown to about 3 to 4 mm., and are actively "eating" only the dead, necrotic, infected tissue, but leaving the healthy red granulation tissue and skin untouched.
		Day 7: After a second application of maggots have been removed, a healthier and cleaner ulcer is present.
		The maggots have cleaned the wound and eliminated the dead tissue within the wound.
	www.joshuakaye.com /topics/maggots.htm (163 words)

	Maggot Therapy (Larva Therapy) Project Home Page
		Results demonstrated that maggot therapy was more effective and efficient at debriding (cleaning) many types of infected and gangrenous wounds than the commonly prescribed treatments in the control groups.
		Medical Maggots are now produced by Monarch Labs (www.MonarchLabs.com), the first and only commercial producer of medical grade maggots and maggot therapy supplies in America since 1935.
		The BioTherapeutics, Education & Research Foundation was established in March, 2003 for the purpose of supporting patient care, education, and research in maggot therapy and the other forms of symbiotic medicine (diagnosing and/or treating diseases with live animals, such as maggot therapy, leech therapy, honey bee therapy, pet therapy & sniffer dogs, ichthiotherapy, bacteriotherapy etc).
	www.ucihs.uci.edu /com/pathology/sherman/home_pg.htm (1655 words)

	Medical Maggots Treat As They Eat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It might be surprising to hear, then, that maggot therapy is enjoying a revival as a modern medical technique—with apparently promising results.
		Five to ten maggots are placed on each square centimeter (0.2 square inch) of a wound, which is then covered with a protective dressing that allows the maggots to breath.
		Suffering the maggots for a few days is small price to treat messy, painful wounds that have lingered for months or even years, doctors say.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/10/1024_031024_maggotmedicine.html (755 words)

	Maggot Therapy for Treating Diabetic Foot Ulcers Unresponsive to Conventional Therapy -- Sherman 26 (2): 446 -- ...
		Maggot therapy was associated with faster debridement and wound
		Maggot therapy was associated with hastened growth of granulation
		Robinson W, Norwood VH: Destruction of pyogenic bacteria in the alimentary tract of surgical maggots implanted in infected wounds.
	care.diabetesjournals.org /cgi/content/full/26/2/446 (2480 words)

	Fleischmann, Maggot Therapy - Thieme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		However, once penicillin was discovered, and antibiotic therapy became common world-wide, maggot therapy was forgotten.
		The results of maggot therapy have been impressive in trea-ting diabetic foot ulcers, slow-healing wounds resulting from circulatory problems, and pressure sores in bedridden patients.
		There is an overview of the pertinent fly species, a history of maggot therapy, and infor-mation on their mode of action and application.
	www.thieme.de /detailseiten/313136811x.html (283 words)

	zoobiotic - Zoobiotic Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Maggots were used by physicians for centuries for treating wounds but they fell into disuse when antibiotics were first introduced in the 1940s.
		It is estimated that some 20,000 people have been treated with the LarvE brand of maggots since the mid1990s and the demand is growing rapidly since their inclusion in the list of medicinal products that can be prescribed by registered general practitioners.
		Maggot therapy will reduce pain in some types of wounds and in some cases it has even been claimed to prevent surgery and amputation.
	www.zoobiotic.com (909 words)

	Maggot therapy linked with reduced post-operative wound infections
		Although military surgeons noticed maggots' beneficial effect on soldiers' wounds centuries ago, maggot debridement therapy (MDT) as it is practiced today began in the 1920s and is undergoing a revival in popularity.
		However, maggots that have been disinfected during the egg stage so that they don't carry bacteria into the wound have their advantages.
		MDT typically involves applying maggot dressings to patients' wounds twice a week for 48-72 hours at a time.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-09/idso-mtl091504.php (497 words)

	What is Maggot Therapy?
		Maggot therapy was occasionally used during the 1970's and 1980's, when antibiotics, surgery, and other modalities of modern medicine failed.
		Results thus far demonstrate that maggot therapy is more effective and efficient at debriding (cleaning) infected and gangrenous wounds than many of the other treatments commonly prescribed.
		This is outside the realm of the "maggot therapy" topic; yet I receive many questions about maggots in the home, garage, garbage can, or on a pet.
	curezone.com /art/read.asp?ID=103&db=5&C0=1 (1686 words)

	Maggot debridement therapy promising - DermatologyTimes
		MDT is the medical use of live maggots or fly larvae for cleaning non-healing wounds.
		There are 300 centers in the U.S., and about 1,000 centers in the United Kingdom and Europe doing maggot therapy, with major centers also in Israel, Egypt, Mexico, Columbia, and Venezuela, which supports Dr. Sherman's claims that MDT is growing rapidly throughout the world.
		Obtaining medical grade maggots is a logistical challenge that remains a problem in many parts of the world, according to Dr. Sherman, but has been overcome in Europe and North America.
	www.dermatologytimes.com /dermatologytimes/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=90118 (873 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| South East Wales \| GPs prescribe home maggot cure
		Maggots have been used as a way of treating infected wounds for many years, and research has shown that wounds heal quicker than when conventional medicine is used.
		After three days, the maggots, who leave healthy tissue alone, are removed from the wound and reapplied if necessary.
		When they suggested maggot therapy to me, all I could think of was that maggots live on dead sheep and I was pretty horrified.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/south_east/3502825.stm (624 words)

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