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| | Maggot therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Maggot therapy was occasionally used during the 1970s and 1980s, when antibiotics, surgery, and other modalities of modern antibiotics and surgical techniques failed. | | | 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. | | | Sherman, R.S. 2003 Maggot Therapy for treating diabetic foot ulcers unresponsive to conventional therapy. |
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| | Emerson Ecologics - Maggot Therapy Speeds Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers |
| | 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 the standard treatment for debriding and healing wounds in the 1930s; however, it has become less popular in the last 40 years. | | | One group was treated with maggot therapy and the other continued with more common approaches. |
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http://www.emersonecologics.com/Newswire.asp?id=483
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| | MAGGOT DEBRIDEMENT THERAPY (MDT) |
| | Maggot therapy seems to be a safe and effective treatment of necrosis in the diabetic foot ulcers. | | | Maggot therapy: a review of the therapeutic applications of fly larvae in human medicine, especially for treating osteomyelitis. | | | Maggot therapy has proved particularly efficacious in soft-tissue infection with extensive laceration and a large amount of necrotic tissue." They describe pain, bleeding, oedema and pyrexia. |
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http://biotherapy.md.huji.ac.il/churchsliterature.htm
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| | Creepy-Crawly Care: Science News Online, Oct. 23, 2004 |
| | Sherman, R.A. Maggot therapy for treating diabetic foot ulcers unresponsive to conventional therapy. | | | Maggot versus conservative debridement therapy for the treatment of pressure ulcers. | | | Another major problem that seems amenable to maggot therapy is bedsores, or pressure ulcers, which bedridden patients commonly develop. |
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http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041023/bob9.asp
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| | 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 surgery is not always appropriate, and sometimes a combination of maggot therapy and surgery has been shown to be more effective. |
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http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2000-2/issue5/ne-scimaggots.html
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| | European Tissue Repair Society - Larval Therapy |
| | Maggot therapy is recognized to work by three main actions: debridement, or liquefaction of necrotic tissue; disinfection; and hastened wound healing. | | | As practitioners become more comfortable with maggot therapy, as more non-physicians participate in its performance, and as maggot therapy becomes the treatment of choice for specific wounds in otherwise healthy patients, rather than the treatment of last resort in the very ill, then out-patient maggot therapy will become much more common than in-patient therapy. | | | This professional organization is dedicated to supporting research and clinical use of maggot therapy and other biological therapeutics (apitherapy, leech therapy, debriding fish, etc). |
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| | MavicaNET - Maggot Therapy |
| | Maggot therapy, also known as biosurgery, larval therapy, or maggot debridement therapy, is a carefully controlled, artificially induced benign myiasis, in which the medical practitioner aims to take advantage of the ability of maggots to break down and ingest infected or necrotic tissue. | | | Maggot versus conservative debridement therapy for the treatment of pressure ulcers | | | Catálogo / Cultura / Ciência / Ciências práticas / Medicina / Medicina alternativa / Biotherapy / Maggot Therapy |
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| | Maggot Therapy Re-Emerging |
| | Maggot therapy is not new, having been used by such individuals as Napoleon's battlefield doctors. | | | 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. | | | The species he uses, phanecia sericata, is one of three species that was regularly used in maggot therapy early in the century. |
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http://www.humboldt.edu/~jcb10/maggot.html
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| | BTER Foundation - Biotherapeutics, Biotherapy, Maggot Therapy, Larva Therapy, Biosurgery, Leech Therapy |
| | BTER Foundation - Biotherapeutics, Biotherapy, Maggot Therapy, Larva Therapy, Biosurgery, Leech Therapy |
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| | 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. | | | Maggot therapy gains acceptance in UK health system | | | 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. |
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| | Maggot Therapy |
| | Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is an old remedy that has been revised and proven to be invaluable in cleansing non-healing wounds. | | | Although not all patients are suited to this therapy, MDT is an efficient, low cost alternative method to cleanse and promote the healing of chronic soft tissue wounds before they progress to a stage where amputation is the only alternative. | | | 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. |
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http://medent.usyd.edu.au/projects/maggott.htm
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| | The researchers examined the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of outpatient maggot debridement therapy in a group of 21 adult patients, ranging from 35 to 95 years of age. | | | Maggots are being used more and more frequently as a safe, effective means of speeding healing in patients recovering from serious wounds. | | | Nearly all the patients suffered from some type of serious leg or foot wound, with eight patients having wounds so resistant to conventional therapies that they were left with few options outside of amputation. |
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http://www.mercola.com/2001/sep/29/maggot_therapy.htm
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| | Fleischmann, Maggot Therapy - Thieme |
| | 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. | | | He is the undisputed pioneer of modern maggot debridement therapy. |
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http://www.thieme.de/detailseiten/313136811x.html
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| | Maggot therapy — antibiotics |
| | In the 1930s maggot therapy (larvae therapy) was very popular. | | | One of the main reasons for its decline was patients’ aversion to maggot therapy, plus the fact that it can be difficult to control. | | | As soon as antibiotics arrived (and surgery improved) the use of maggot therapy went down. |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=4778
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| | Medical Maggots Treat As They Eat |
| | (www.BTERFoundation.org), was established this year to make maggot therapy more widely available to patients without insurance, to train doctors and educate patients, and to support necessary clinical trials and other research. | | | It might be surprising to hear, then, that maggot therapy is enjoying a revival as a modern medical technique—with apparently promising results. | | | Not for the faint of heart, maggot therapy is enjoying a revival. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/10/1024_031024_maggotmedicine.html
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| | ScienceDaily: Maggot Therapy Linked With Reduced Post-Operative Wound Infections |
| | Craniosacral Therapy is the most practical, comprehensive textbook in this rapidly growing field of therapy involving the cranial bones, meningeal membranes, cerebrospinal fluids, and whole-body... | | | The first edition of this workbook is regarded as a classic in its field, and was the first book to introduce trigger point therapy to the general public as a self-care tool for alleviating chronic... | | | Many patients accept the idea of maggot therapy more readily than one might think. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040916104453.htm
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| | LiveScience.com - Maggots and Leeches: Old Medicine is New |
| | But maggots are now making a comeback, and they are increasingly being used to treat ulcers, gangrene, skin cancer, and burns. | | | Studies led by Andreas Michalsen, a researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, suggests leech therapy may lessen the pain and inflammation associated with osteoarthritis, a debilitating disease where bones can grind against one another because the cartilage has been worn down. | | | Mitchell, now 52, had to make a decision soon because the powerful antibiotic that doctors prescribed for her infection was also wreaking havoc on her bones. |
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http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050419_maggots.html
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| | zoobiotic - Zoobiotic Web Site |
| | Maggot therapy will reduce pain in some types of wounds and in some cases it has even been claimed to prevent surgery and amputation. | | | Conventional treatments for these wounds can take months to achieve a successful outcome, but maggot therapy usually involves no more than one or two treatments, each lasting 2-3 days. | | | James Stewart, Chief Executive of Partnerships UK added: “We are delighted to be associated with the spin-out of ZooBiotic and the development of a maggot therapy business. |
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| | 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. | | | Andrew Thomas' foot was saved from amputation after using maggots to treat a wound infection. | | | Dr Steve Thomas, director of the Biosurgical Research Unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital, said: "We recognised there is a greater need for maggot therapy in the community." |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/3502825.stm
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| | BTER Foundation Home Page, Biotherapy, Biotherapeutics, Maggot Therapy, Leech Therapy, Pet Therapy, Apitherapy, ... |
| | The BTER Foundation is dedicated to the BeTER-ment of health, by supporting patient care, education, and research in Biotherapy and symbiotic medicine. | | | The BTER Foundation, in its efforts to assist patients and therapists, announces the latest advances in reimbursement status for biotherapeutic medical procedures: CPT and ABC codes are available for requesting reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance. | | | BTER Foundation Home Page, Biotherapy, Biotherapeutics, Maggot Therapy, Leech Therapy, Pet Therapy, Apitherapy, Helminth Therapy, Sniffer Dogs, |
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| | Tiny surgeons: Maggot therapy clears the dead tissue cleanly |
| | The approvals were two steps forward for an odd area of medicine that Sherman calls "biotherapeutics," a group of treatments that deploy living animals to advance the health of humans. | | | Tiny surgeons: Maggot therapy clears the dead tissue cleanly | | | Gottwald applied more maggots Wednesday and said a third treatment might be necessary. |
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| | Fortean Slips: Maggot Surgeons |
| | Incidentally, the use of maggots in modern medicine is not unheard of. | | | There are benefits to maggot surgery other than just being cool and gross and stuff. | | | The little guys are grown in sterile conditions, and a Bridgend General Hospital nurse described patient reaction to the new cancer therapy as "enthusiastic." |
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| | IDSA News from the Journals |
| | Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for infants born with HIV infection may be most effective when given in their first five months of life, according to a study published in the April 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. | | | The introduction of generic drugs into the country has encouraged people to seek HIV treatment because of the cheaper cost, the article states. | | | HIV Mortality in India Drops with Introduction of Generic Antiretroviral Therapy 10/19/2005 |
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| | Wired News: Dawn of the Dead-Flesh Eaters |
| | Their resurrection began in the early 1980s when Dr. Ronald Sherman, a researcher at the University of California at Irvine, began exploring their potential benefits for patients with wounds, especially on their legs and feet. | | | Antibiotics soon entered the picture, however, and maggots fell out of favor as doctors turned to penicillin and its sister drugs. | | | It seems that maggots, long neglected by medicine, have come back from the dead. |
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| | A Moment of Science: Maggot Therapy |
| | But even today--rarely--when a tricky wound doesn't respond to standard treatment, some doctors still turn to maggot therapy. | | | It sounds disgusting, but maggot therapy saved many lives and limbs. | | | The maggots even wiggled out of the wound when their work was done, collecting on the dressing to be thrown away. |
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| | Maggot Therapy - Los Angeles Podiatrist and Foot Doctor |
| | Maggot Therapy - Los Angeles Podiatrist and Foot Doctor | | | Additional treatment will be needed to close the ulcer. | | | Day 7: After a second application of maggots have been removed, a healthier and cleaner ulcer is present. |
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| | The Biosurgical Research Unit - Home of LarvE sterile maggots |
| | If you have a question about LarvE therapy and can't find the answer here, you can telephone or write to the BRU. | | | News regarding a major clinical trial of maggot therapy run by the University of York; | | | From February 20th 2004, LarvE, sterile maggots of the common greenbottle Lucilia sericata, will be available on prescription. |
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| | eHealthy News You Can Use |
| | Mercola encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional. | | | Maggot Therapy: An Alternative for Wound Infection 10/15/00 | | | Enter your e-mail address below to subscribe to my free newsletter: |
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http://www.mercola.com/2000/oct/15/maggots.htm
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| | Maggot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | maggoted is a slang term for drunkenness: see List of slang terms for drunkenness. | | | Maggot Brain is a 1971 album by the American funk band Funkadelic. | | | For the maggot pattern on British neolithic pottery, see Peterborough ware. |
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| | Maggot Therapy Fleischmann, Wim/ Grassberger, Martin, Ph D / Sherman, Ronald, M D - Textbook - Bookbyte.com |
| | Maggot Therapy by Fleischmann, Wim/ Grassberger, Martin, Ph.D./ Sherman, Ronald, M.D. A Handbook of Maggot-Assisted Wound Healing | | | Maggot Therapy Fleischmann, Wim/ Grassberger, Martin, Ph D / Sherman, Ronald, M D - Textbook - Bookbyte.com |
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