[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JPL', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'y')eah well baby, you haven't had a pee pee fish swim into your bladder.

[JPL]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') don't think you need to worry about it, JP. It's people who urinate while in the Amazon River who are subject to the horrors of the candiru fish I'm still not sure if the fish can actually jump out of the water into a penis. But it sounds pretty bad anyway. Some call the Amazon "Green Hell."

[bodigami]

I'm thankful to fly maggots, the dead becomes food for the vegetation and nature is cleaner.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JPL', '
')I ain't going ANYWHERE near any rivers any more until I am totally sure of this. It sounds bad...

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'g')lobal warming.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'g')lobal warming.

[kadoomsoon]

Maggots are necessary for nature at times.

[kadoomsoon]

Bump sorry

[gampy]

I saw a documentary on British TV that showed physicians treating a diabetic woman's rotting foot with maggots.

Successfully, I might add. So much for amputation for diabetics. Wonders never cease.

But it sure looked horrifying. The lady opened the dressing for the cameras and showed these little squirmy maggots jostling around inside this lady's rotted ankle. She said it took some getting used to. The first few nights she had nightmares, when she actually slept, but she got used to it when her foot started feeling better.

But nothing is worse than picking up an old bag of garbage that suddenly disintegrates and gazillions of maggots are at your feet.

Yum.

[Ludi]

Here are some giant grubs I found the other day:

[SinisterBlueCat]

GAK! i was not expecting that picture ludi!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', 'G')AK!

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', '
')More disgusting still...those who persist in violating the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

[midnight-gamer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f maggots only eat decaying, rotten flesh and PMS put one in his leg wound, how would the maggot know when to stop munching? Rolling Eyes

[mercurygirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'H')ere are some giant grubs I found the other day:

[kadoomsoon]

We have a garden cart like that, from costco.

[kadoomsoon]

Managing and monitoring maggots

“When a patient receives MDT, staff are really curious and excited about it … usually,” Axelrod says. Care is primarily observational. Significant drainage requires that the outer gauze be changed, according to Axelrod, and whoever does it can expect to see the squirming maggots at work. Although they start out about the size of an eyelash and are white-beige in color, they look more like a big, fat, puffy piece of brown rice when finished, usually after about 48 to 72 hours.

“Sometimes patients can have bleeding, but it’s rare,” Fuller says. “It probably means the maggots are getting down to live tissue. If there’s discomfort, she adds, the dressing should be removed and the patient assessed. Complaints can range from feeling the maggots moving to severe pain usually associated with ischemic wounds. Unless pain can be adequately controlled with analgesics or the patient’s anxiety relieved, treatment is terminated early.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mercurygirl', 'W')hat the heck were those, Ludi? Ugh. I see stuff like that in my garden, but they're only about a quarter inch long. We have big slugs, though, but they're harmless.