Maggot therapy: an alternative for wound infection.
The cost of
maggot therapy largely is unknown by many physicians.
With the advent of antibiotic-resistant organisms and increasing drug sensitivities, there was a renewed interest in
maggot therapy in the 1980s [40].
American Civil War was the time when Jones and Zacharias performed
maggot therapy clinically.
According to Wikipedia, as of 2008,
maggot therapy was being used in around 1,000 medical centres in Europe and over 800 medical centres in the United States.Maggots are also used in forensics to date corpses.
Some unsuccessful surgical and antibiotic treatments of infections such as temporal mastoiditis and perineal gangrene were treated using
maggot therapy. Wounds resulting from cuts, wounds or even trauma resulting from diseases like diabetes, bed sores, gangrene, and burns are the problems of human societies (1).
One of the options offered is
maggot therapy, in which sterile maggots are applied in a pack, in order to clean wounds and help recovery.
We used two bovines, one horse and one canine treated with
maggot therapy in the veterinary clinic of the University of La Salle, Bogota-Colombia.
aeruginosa could be treated with an agent that interrupts bacterial signalling to ensure the success of
maggot therapy and thereby wound healing."