23rd
March
2009
Maggots aren’t that great after all
posted in - Medical Updates, - Offbeat news, - Palmdoc, - Site updates |We’ve mentioned Maggot therapy in this blog and the squeamish would be glad to know it’s no better than gel for wound healing so a new study says.
A UK study found that maggots (larval therapy) were no quicker at helping leg ulcers to heal or get rid of bacteria than the standard treatment based on hydrogel, and they were on the whole more painful, although they did speed up removal of dead tissue (debridement).
The study was the work of lead researcher Professor Nicky Cullum, deputy head of health sciences at the University of York, and colleagues also from York and other UK research centres, and is published in the 19 March issue of BMJ.
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