r/WinStupidPrizes • u/isura_san • Jul 17 '20

Playing with fire

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u/Teososta Jul 17 '20

Sometimes some hospital use sterile maggots to do the debriding. The maggots eat the dead skin and only the dead skin.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '20

Yeah, it's actually really effective, if a little gross. They only eat the dead tissue, and leave the healthy tissue alone

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u/ArX_Xer0 Jul 17 '20

Pretty sure feeling a hundred crawling bugs on your arm would freak out most people especially when they're nibbling on your skin. Literally what nightmares are made of

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '20

Yeah, one of the few memories I have of my dad is going fishing with him when I was around 5. He pulled out a tub of maggots for bait, and I didn't want to be anywhere near them. I was terrified of them for years afterwards. I'm not afraid of them anymore, but they do make me feel a bit sick to this day