How many of you have had family, friends, or patrons who have a need to know about wound therapy? In recent years doctors have been using (sterile) maggot therapy for those non-healing wounds - ICK! I does work to clean away dead tissue (debridement) and works well, especially for those "at risk" such as diabetes patients. But now British scientists have developed a new wound dressing that may just be able to do what those little maggots do! It is in the form of a "hydrogel" that could potentially be used to deliver the working product to the skin as a bandage - without the actual maggots. It has not been perfected, but this is something to look forward to!
You can find information on the recent surge of maggot therapy for treating wounds in both the InfoTrac databases and the ProQuest databases. Using the terms Wound Care and Maggots you will find information in reference sources, magazines, journals, and newspapers.
