Scientists: ill heal the wounds can be successfully treated with worms

Worms is used in modern medicine. As InoPressa.ru writes with a link to The Times, to the British scientists concluded.

How to detect if allowed larvae "feed on the dead tissue, not heal the wounds cleaned up to five times faster than with standard methods.

Treatment of worms was tested on patients with trophic ulcers of legs. The doctors concluded that the forces of larvae can be quickly cleaned of tissue before the patient's immediate operations - for example, skin transplants, said the publication.

Modern microsurgery and the use of leeches: they lightsome draw off excess blood from all vessels that are not connected in time. "For one sitting leech can absorb five times more blood than the weight itself," - explains the publication.

Treatment of wounds worms practiced among the Mayan Indians and Australian aborigines. Chief surgeon of Napoleon's army, that among the soldiers, whose wounds breed worms, mortality is much lower. The method of treatment of worms came out of fashion with the advent of antibiotics, said the publication.