Dressing and Coverings - Maggot Larval Therapy

DRESSING and COVERINGS
 Maggot Larval Therapy

 

They are barren larvae of flies prepared in laboratory.

They are used in the biological debridement of wounds as, therefore these maggots if feed of the necrotic tissue and fibrinous slough.

Some species of maggot of flies are only adjusted to this type of procedure, as the Regina phormia (blackbottle blowfly) or Lucilia sericata (greenbottle fly).

iNDICAtion

The wounds with the necrotic tissue and fibrinous slough.

TO USE

You are applied directly on the stream bed of the wound - on the necrotic tissue and fibrinous slough.

The amount of maggot, the duration of the treatment and the type of covering are determined according to experience of the team and necessity of the injury.

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Blackbottle blowfly

ZOOPARASITOSis

*In natura, how much not used with therapeutical intention, the fly larvae give to origin zooparasitosis, known as miiasis.

The blowfly puts down innumerable eggs in the cutaneous surface or preexisting ulcers. The eggs come out and the maggot grow without necessary control and security.

SEE CLINICAL CASE

Zooparasitosis

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DRESSING and COVERINGS


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To KNOW MORE...

It Consults the Feridologo's
Book
!!! NEW APROACH IN THE TREATMENT OF WOUNDS 
Luiz Claudio Candido, MD. Publishing SENAC-SP,
São Paulo-Brazil, 2001.

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BIBLIOGRAFYCAL REFERENCE

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