What are the benefits of maggot therapy?

Maggot therapy uses special medical maggots. Using medical maggots to clean some wounds is faster than surgical cleaning and can effectively clean the wounds. Because maggots only eat dead flesh, there is no need to worry about maggots attacking other good meat, and their excrement can also help improve the patient's immunity.

1. Clean up quickly

Medical maggots refer to the larvae of a special species of flies (Green Fly), which can clean wounds quickly and effectively. This therapy can more effectively remove wound slough than traditional methods and accelerate the healing of ulcer wounds, thereby avoiding patients from undergoing amputation surgery due to limb ulcers. Maggot therapy has certain advantages in treating diabetes, foot ulcers, skin ulcers, etc.

2. Won't attack good meat

Maggots will not eat healthy tissue around the wound, but only attack the necrotic tissue on the wound surface, without affecting the surrounding normal tissue, and can promote the formation of granulation tissue.

3. Clean up

It can also enter deep wounds that are difficult to reach even with surgical operations. The excrement they excrete after devouring dead flesh contains bactericidal salts, and the body also contains antibiotics and substances that enhance the patient's immunity, which help heal ulcer wounds.