Making the most of maggots: Nurse advocates for greater larval therapy use

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Making the most of maggots: Nurse advocates for greater larval therapy use

Maggots
Medical maggots applied to sloughing, long-term, unhealed and often ulcerated wounds debride the wound, accelerating healing

Medical maggot use is “cheap as chips” and increasing awareness could have large payoffs in chronic wound outcomes

Increasing doctor and patient awareness about medical mag­got use has the potential for big payoffs for treatment outcomes, Canterbury charge nurse Yv