Diabetic sores have now become a major problem Diabetic people. America has over 24 million citizens are victims to this incurable disease. These 24 million are nearly 7% of the complete American population. And among these diabetics, on an average, one out of every five, suffer from diabetic ulcers due to the problems of diabetes.
Diabetic wounds do not heal like the ordinary wounds. The tissues take more time to heal due to presence of sugar in the blood that result in inadequate supply of required nutrients. The bacteria that surround the wound and are also present in the wound’s tissues, skin, muscles and tendon, makes the skin necrotic and dead. In diabetic patients, the dead skin needs to be removed instantly to avoid the wound from septicaemia which is an infection that is life threatening.
Traditional medicinal merely work for the septicemia affected person. Another form of physical condition medicines uses maggots for curing septicemia. The maggot are the larva of fly that are inserted in the patients wound to clear the dead skin. These maggots feed on the dead skin and save the life of the patients. One advantage of maggots is that they only eat the dead tissues and therefore leave the live tissues untouched.
Maggots are natural surgeons who are capable of doing what even the best surgeons cannot do. That is cleaning only the dead tissues. These mini doctors are introduced in large numbers in the wounds of the patients under sterile conditions and removed under the same.
The treatment now in use since ages and now has seen a rebirth in the field of medicine. The therapy is useful in avoiding amputations and even hep in increasing the lives of the people who suffer contaminated diabetic ulcers. The role of these mini doctors is simply miraculous.