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Maggots Quickly Clean Up Wounds, Study Shows
Posted 20 Dec 2011 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, Dec. 20 – The surgeons' scalpel may have new (and wriggling) competition in cleaning troublesome wounds: maggots. To the uninitiated the treatment may seem strange. But new French research suggests that bagging up live, sterile fly larvae in tightly meshed dressing packs and applying them to open sores can be a quick, safe and effective way to clear away dead tissue. Actually, "maggot debridement therapy" (MDT) has a long history in medicine. And the new investigation suggests that this approach – traditionally reserved for more severe wounds – can be a quick, first-line therapy for less severe lesions. "Twenty years ago, maggot therapy was performed mostly as a 'last resort' prior to amputation," for the treatment of non-healing wounds, explained Dr. Ronald A. Sherman, a "biotherapeutics" researcher at the University of California, Irvine, and the Los Angeles and Orange ... Read more
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Scientists Engineering Advanced Wound Dressings
Posted 10 Jul 2010 by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, July 9 – A revolutionary medical dressing that can detect and treat infection in wounds is being developed by an international team of scientists. When the dressing detects infection-related bacteria, it will release antibiotics from tiny embedded capsules, the researchers explained. The dressing will also change color in order to alert health-care providers that there is infection in the wound. "Your skin is normally home to billions of 'friendly' bacteria, which it needs to stay healthy," project leader Dr. Toby Jenkins, of the University of Bath in England, said in a university news release. "The dressing is only triggered by disease-causing bacteria, which produce toxins that break open capsules containing the antibiotics and dye. This means that antibiotics are only released when needed, which reduces the risk of the evolution of new antibiotic-resistant superbugs such as ... Read more
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