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https://xkcd.com/2929

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While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.

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[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Putting mold on infections? Wait what?

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Maggots on wounds is a thing too. They only eat dead tissue

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't maggot poo or the eventual maggot corpses cause problems?

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

The maggots do the hard work cleaning the wound. Cleaning up the maggots and poo is easy by comparison. But yeah you don't want to leave them there forever, just enough to remove the dead stuff.

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 year ago

Not as much as necrotic tissue still attached to the patient, I suppose. (The idea is that these maggots are extremely good at debridement, that is, at eating only the dead tissue and leaving the still healthy ones alone; other methods, like scalpels, can't be so discriminating, and force the doctors to remove healthy tissue to make sure there's no necrosis left).

[-] oce@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago

They are "medical-grade" maggots raised for this purpose to avoid germs.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Medical Grade Maggots is a good band name

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Maggots used for this are grown in sterile conditions, and aren't left on the wound for long.

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