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, hearing or seeing an animal called maggots sometimes make people disgusted. But who would have thought, this disgusting animal that can actually be used as therapy for wound healing in diabetics.
Patients with diabetes generally suffer injury at the hands or feet in the form of boils that are difficult to cure. Some patients even had to endure these conditions for years. If left unchecked, would evolve into gangrenous wounds and sometimes have to amputation.
Researchers from Hawaii has a fast and effective way to heal the wounds caused by diabetes, using maggots. To heal these wounds, the doctor removes the infected or dead tissue with a scalpel or enzymes. This process is called debridement.
"Patients with diabetes are really need better treatments to save their limbs. Treatment of debridement using maggots are very effective. Only with a one-time treatment, the wounds began to improve," said Dr. Lawrence Eron of Kaiser Hospital and the University of Hawaii at Honolulu, told Reuters on Monday (9/26/2011).
In this study, Eron and his team treat 37 diabetics using maggots. Everything artery disease that causes the blood circulation to the hands or feet is not good. They also have a wound that has not healed, even up to five years.
"Many patients who might be a bit wary of insects living there who put in his wounds. We'll explain how it works and what problems might occur," said Eron.
The doctors put 50 to 100 species of Lucilia sericata maggots on the wound and leave it for two days at first. This procedure is repeated until an average of five times.
"We shut the maggots in materials such as nets, nylon stockings can also be used. Then we sealed the cage so they do not come out," said Eron.
Twenty-one patients were successfully cured. Healing with recovery of infection is identified, the dead tissue removed entirely, the formation of a powerful new network in the wound and more than three-quarters of the wound has closed.
Five wound infections that previously could not be cured with antibiotics, successfully treated with maggot therapy. Nine bacterial wound infections, six of them managed to recover with maggot therapy. Ten cases of infection caused by streptococcus also successfully treated all of them.
However, not all patients successfully with this therapy. Patients who fail to experience excessive inflammation around the wound, removing too much blood and having trouble with the infected bone.
Maggots release a substance into the wound which liquefy dead tissue and then swallow it. The wounds cleaned and other substances contained in the liquid allows the formation of granulation tissue maggot, which is a type of connective tissue formed during wound healing.
"To make this technique work, wound really need to be cleaned, removing dead tissue and produce a robust granulation tissue into the wound. Here was the maggots can help," he concluded.aii, hearing or seeing an animal called maggots sometimes make people disgusted. But who would have thought, this disgusting animal that can actually be used as therapy for wound healing in diabetics.
Patients with diabetes generally suffer injury at the hands or feet in the form of boils that are difficult to cure. Some patients even had to endure these conditions for years. If left unchecked, would evolve into gangrenous wounds and sometimes have to amputation.
Researchers from Hawaii has a fast and effective way to heal the wounds caused by diabetes, using maggots. To heal these wounds, the doctor removes the infected or dead tissue with a scalpel or enzymes. This process is called debridement.
"Patients with diabetes are really need better treatments to save their limbs. Treatment of debridement using maggots are very effective. Only with a one-time treatment, the wounds began to improve," said Dr. Lawrence Eron of Kaiser Hospital and the University of Hawaii at Honolulu, told Reuters on Monday (9/26/2011).
In this study, Eron and his team treat 37 diabetics using maggots. Everything artery disease that causes the blood circulation to the hands or feet is not good. They also have a wound that has not healed, even up to five years.
"Many patients who might be a bit wary of insects living there who put in his wounds. We'll explain how it works and what problems might occur," said Eron.
The doctors put 50 to 100 species of Lucilia sericata maggots on the wound and leave it for two days at first. This procedure is repeated until an average of five times.
"We shut the maggots in materials such as nets, nylon stockings can also be used. Then we sealed the cage so they do not come out," said Eron.
Twenty-one patients were successfully cured. Healing with recovery of infection is identified, the dead tissue removed entirely, the formation of a powerful new network in the wound and more than three-quarters of the wound has closed.
Five wound infections that previously could not be cured with antibiotics, successfully treated with maggot therapy. Nine bacterial wound infections, six of them managed to recover with maggot therapy. Ten cases of infection caused by streptococcus also successfully treated all of them.
However, not all patients successfully with this therapy. Patients who fail to experience excessive inflammation around the wound, removing too much blood and having trouble with the infected bone.
Maggots release a substance into the wound which liquefy dead tissue and then swallow it. The wounds cleaned and other substances contained in the liquid allows the formation of granulation tissue maggot, which is a type of connective tissue formed during wound healing.
"To make this technique work, wound really need to be cleaned, removing dead tissue and produce a robust granulation tissue into the wound. Here was the maggots can help," he concluded.
