Hospitals ‘prefer maggot cure’
Published: May 30, 2005
Thai hospitals are experimenting with maggot therapy as a cheap, effective treatment of diabetes, ulcers, wounds and infections, said a news report on Monday.
The newspaper reported that, Maggot therapy, which had been used to treat wounds since the time of French emperor, Napoleon, was reintroduced to Thailand in April with the importation of green bottle flies - Lucilia sericata - from Germany by BioMonde, a Thailand company.
The flies’ larvae were sterile.
Treatment, which costs 10 000 to 15 000 baht ($250 to $375) involved applying the larvae to a wound for three days to dispose of dead tissue, clean it and produced an enzyme that helped reconstruct healthy tissue.
The newspaper reported the maggot treatment had already been successfully used on several patients at Thai hospitals, quoting satisfied customers.
Ironically, the new therapy had been introduced to Thailand amid a spate of weird cases of doctors finding maggots, of the non-sterile variety, in patients’ ears, noses and belly buttons.
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