The age-old therapy of using maggots to clean wounds is making a comeback, and helping diabetics keep their limbs. When you have diabetes, there’s no such thing as a small wound. Your body’s healing process slows and wounds can get bad very quickly without warning—which often leads to amputations. In response, some diabetic patients undergo Maggot Debridement Therapy, where medical-grade maggots are used to clean the wound by consuming dead tissue. This helps to speed up the process of healing. Maggot treatment is available at many Singapore-based hospitals, and the maggots are bred by a local life-sciences company, ORIGIN Scientia¹.

References

• ¹http://www.medifly.com.sg