Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas

southernbrewer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin

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• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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).

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Medical Grade Maggots is a good band name

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