Maggots can help heal horse wounds, study shows

One of the 2 methods for applying the maggots involved placing a cyberspace nether the edges of the injure onto which the maggots were placed.

Maggots tin play a business office inward modern veterinarian attention inward helping to heal a variety of Equus caballus wounds, a novel written report has shown.

The written report assessed the effectiveness of maggot debridement therapy inward a multifariousness of equine lesions too constitute that the method was beneficial inward 93 per cent of cases.

The cyberspace is too thence closed too sutured to agree the maggots inward house inside the wound.

Debridement is the medical term for the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to amend the healing potential of remaining salubrious tissue.

Maggots bring been used for the handling of wounds for hundreds of years.

Freshly emerged, germ-free larvae of the mutual greenish bottle wing are normally used for the purpose.

Their wound-healing activeness is attributed to a debridement effect, an antiseptic effect, a at i time outcome on cytokine too jail mobile telephone proliferation involved inward injure healing, too breakdown of biofilm formation.

Maggots besides destroy too digest bacteria too may besides endure beneficial inward the struggle against multi-drug-resistant bacteria such every bit MRSA.

The study, published inward the Equine Veterinary Journal’s recent American Association of Equine Practitioners supplement, involved the retrospective analysis of 41 horses amongst diverse lesions, including pes injuries, limb lacerations, soft tissue abscesses too musculoskeletal infections.

Depending on the type, size too location of the wound, the maggots were applied either inward at i time or indirect contact.

In to a greater extent than or less cases a minute maggot application was necessary to achieve the desired score of healing.

Debridement, disinfection too healing occurred inward all precisely 3 cases, inward less than a week.

Of the 3 that did non respond, 2 were complicated past times the presence of tumours too i past times pre-existing impairment to the underlying bone.

Olivier Lepage

Olivier Lepage, of the University of Lyon, who led the study, concluded: “These results present that maggot debridement therapy potentially has an integral house inward modern veterinarian injure care.

“It tin endure used to process many types of lesions, although non those involving tumours or os sequestration. Associated high costs acquaint a limiting factor, precisely maggot debridement therapy should for certain endure considered for lesions that neglect to response to conventional methods.”

The editor of the Equine Veterinary Journal, Professor Celia Marr, said: “Horses ofttimes endure from non-healing wounds, peculiarly inward the limbs where the peel is nether continuous crusade too at that topographic point is really piddling subcutaneous tissue.

“Although at commencement glance this written report mightiness appear counter-intuitive too nosotros mightiness intend of maggots every bit existence the concluding affair i would wishing on a build clean wound, it shows that maggots tin endure an effective agency to clear damaged tissue too this is an of import adjunctive approach inward equine injure management.”

 

The exercise of maggot debridement therapy inward 41 equids OM Lepage, H5N1 Doumbia, MF Perron-Lepage too K Gangl. EVJ ISSN 0425-1644 DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-3306.2012.00609.x

 

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