Maggots anyone?

[InsaneApache]

Pam Mitchell knew the maggots were working when her foot started bleeding.

wriggly-woos

And there was I, 30 years ago impaling 'em on a fishhook...

[Csargo]

I dont know if I could do that sick

[GoreBag]

On such a jaded universe as the intraweb, few things qualify as disgusting, but the images provided get the job done. Holy carp.

[Reverend Joe]

There is a link to a picture of the maggots, at work, inside her foot. For the love of god, and for your own sake, DO NOT CLICK ON IT. That was the most horrifying thing I have ever seen in my whole entire life. I am going to be sick, and afterwards I will gouge out my own eyes and have my memory erased via electroshock therapy.

[Ice]

There is a link to a picture of the maggots, at work, inside her foot. For the love of god, and for your own sake, DO NOT CLICK ON IT. That was the most horrifying thing I have ever seen in my whole entire life. I am going to be sick, and afterwards I will gouge out my own eyes and have my memory erased via electroshock therapy.

OMG I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN UR ADVICE.

[discovery1]

Curious. Wonder how they work. Why didn't I read it.......


And they aren't that disguisting.

[Ja'chyra]

Curious. Wonder how they work. Why didn't I read it.......


And they aren't that disguisting.

I think the maggots work because the only eat dead or decaying flesh, so when their work is done the wound is composed of healthy flesh with a good chance to regenerate or at least heal over.

The leeches work in a similar fashion in that they drain excess fluids from wounds while numbing the area due to proteins in their saliva.

[BDC]

They are supposed to be really good at this sort of thing. No human can easily cut out all the dead flesh leaving only healthy, but maggots can. Cunning little things.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Oh, god. I'm feeling sick now. Don't look at those pictures when eating lunch.

[yesdachi]

Pretty sick images but I have heard that it works great because they only eat bad flesh. Now I’m going to try and settle my stomach with a greasy cheese burger.

[Viking]

That image with the maggots working inside her foot reminded me about something I`ve seen on sheep in real life.
I guess I`ve become immune to such...

You people could never had become doctors.

[Scurvy]

ergh

[Major Robert Dump]

Pork Fri Ri, Soy Sau. Four Nine Nine please!

[doc_bean]

the picture ust made me think: interesting.

I'm more jaded than most of you !

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

The pictures not that bad.

I think it would actually be quite interesting to be able to see inside your foot like that. Apart from the, you know, excruciating pain.

[Kralizec]

Fascinating.

[Divinus Arma]

ugh. that was pretty heinous. Interesting, but heinous. I would hate to get that treatment. I would want a local pain killer to numb my foot and then I would want to just lay back and watch Tv. No feeling. No looking at it. just do it and be done.

Why cant they just replicate the protein combination used by the maggots and apply that, scrape goo, rinse and repeat?

[Reverend Joe]

ugh. that was pretty heinous. Interesting, but heinous. I would hate to get that treatment. I would want a local pain killer to numb my foot and then I would want to just lay back and watch Tv. No feeling. No looking at it. just do it and be done.

Why cant they just replicate the protein combination used by the maggots and apply that, scrape goo, rinse and repeat?

Exactly. Or just cut the damn thing off. Honestly, even with the pain killer, I think the feeling of the maggots wriggling around inside of me (which even pain killers probably could not remove, since pressure nerves seem to be resistant to pain killers) would just be too horrific to bear; I think it would be more psychologically damaging than losing a foot would be physically damaging. Plus, you can always get a replacement mechanical foot.

[Divinus Arma]

Exactly. Or just cut the damn thing off. Honestly, even with the pain killer, I think the feeling of the maggots wriggling around inside of me (which even pain killers probably could not remove, since pressure nerves seem to be resistant to pain killers) would just be too horrific to bear; I think it would be more psychologically damaging than losing a foot would be physically damaging. Plus, you can always get a replacement mechanical foot.

Thats why you need the local painkiller, to numb your wound. You wont even feel the wriggling maggots devouring your live flesh.

[doc_bean]

Ow come one, it's definatly worth it to save your foot !

Healing involves discomfort most of the time, it's knowing that it will make you better that gets you through.

[Reverend Joe]

Trust me, I know discomfort in healing. I have had a broken arm, a thumb sliced open with a hatchet (don't ask) and a few very nasty dental procedures. But if the discomfort becomes psychological torture, rather than raw physical pain, I just cannot take it. Very few people can. Part of this, I am sure, stems from a phobia of bugs, but part of it has to do with relatively large living things (as compared to the microbes in my gut, for example) writhing inside of me, eating my diseased flesh.

No. Just... no.

[GoreBag]

Gotta do what you gotta do. I'd bring a bottle with me and drink myself angry, if that's what it took to bear the treatment.

[Geezer57]

Thats why you need the local painkiller, to numb your wound. You wont even feel the wriggling maggots devouring your live flesh.

Actually, they only eat the mortified flesh, not live tissue. But I imagine it "tickles" a bunch!!!