Originally posted by: UberVoodooFX9700
so uh how the hell did it get there?
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: UberVoodooFX9700
so uh how the hell did it get there?
Probably the same way maggots get into anything, a fly laid an egg.
Originally posted by: yamahaXS
Originally posted by: ohtwell
I can make it triple nasty.Originally posted by: yamahaXS
Originally posted by: ohtwell
I once had a cat that had one of those fully mature under the skin and it popped open a hole on her back. At least that worm never had the chance to fully mature or it might have doen the same thing to his eye. I imagine that would hurt really bad.
: ) Amanda
double nasty!
I saw the hole and what I thought was pus inside it. Then I noticed that the puss seemed to move but I thought that was just the cat so I just shrugged it off. I noticed that the hole wasn't closing so I examined it again and noticed that the puss had two black eyes. :Q I ended up getting a pair of tweezers and pulling out this big, nasty, yellow worm type thing. The hole closed and healed fine after the worm was gone.
: ) Amanda
good god please stop!
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Somebody here on the forum went to S. America on vacation and came back with one of those in his shoulder (?) about 6 months ago if I remember correctly.
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Want to get really grossed out?
The pics are examples of what goes on in your skin on a microscopic level every day, you have a whole ecosystem living on/in your body.
I've seen a couple of patients with worms/maggots in wounds, it is one of the few things that makes me want to vomit. You never forge the smell...
Bot Flies lay their eggs on mosquitoes. The eggs hatch in the mosquito and the larvae are transmitted to humans when the mosquito bites the human.Originally posted by: LAUST
how in the hell does that happen
Originally posted by: dxkj
the mosquito bit him on the eye?
Doctors are now using maggots to help keep wounds cleaned out and disinfected while it is healing. Used for large wounds that would otherwise leave lots of scar tissue. They put a few tiny larvae on the wound, and then bandage it up. After a few months later, take the bandage off, larvae are huge, but the skin is smooth and healed. This works because the maggots don't eat live tissue, only tissue that is already dead. So they actually are beneficial...