Medical Breakthrough

[jambutty]

Maggots on wounds to prevent infection and aid healing is nothing new but scientists have discovered that the maggot secretions have powerful antibiotic properties that is a match for all known current superbugs.

Best of all it has been claimed that it could also launch a whole new set of antibiotics as yet undiscovered.

It has also been claimed that cockroaches may have some medicinal value.

[kathleen_firth]

cockroaches will be going no where near my body
thank you very much

[accyman]

a cockroach a day keeps the doctor away


hope they can transfer this to suit human needs

i read somewhere that in researching a cure for cancer they discovered that they could not grow a cancerous tumour on a shark as the tumour just simply died but they have not yet been able to find out why or if they have they havnt found out how to use it to suit human needs

good news though if they have found better antibiotics because the ones we have now are loosing their effectiveness

[MargaretR]

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..And hospitals don't need to order and pay for them - they have their own supply

[cashman]

whats always puzzled me with research, is that the mind that thought - eeh yeh i will test maggot crap, is obviously sicker than mine.

[accyman]

anglers keep maggots in their mouth and im pretty sure some of the maggots take a dump at some point

but whos laughing now

[garinda]

Originally Posted by cashman

whats always puzzled me with research, is that the mind that thought - eeh yeh i will test maggot crap, is obviously sicker than mine.

Pop a maggot down your drawers to keep crabs under control.

[bonny_tuesday]

A little off thread I know, but on the same tack.
I have to take my parents to the hospital very regularly. Yesterday they had to go to Hope Hospital and it was very very humid yesterday. Germs love humidity and multiply, and grow and create all sorts of havoc in hospitals, they just love it. So could anybody enlighten me as to WHY they dont ever open any bloomin windows to let some fresh air in!! or install proper air conditioning like they have to in hot countries. All those poor poorley people in there, too ill to look after themselves and they arent even offered fresh clean air!
Pardon me!
Bonny x

[lettie]

I would kill for fresh air at work Bonny, but unfortunately, poorly people feel the cold. I remember from my Infirmary days, as soon as you opened a window, some poor old dear would complain that it was freezing. The point being, you can't please everyone.
It is boiling on the maternity wards too, this is because babies feel the cold, especially when only just born.

[MargaretR]

...and the problem with large public air conditioning systems is that they need regular maintenance or Legionnaires disease happens.

[bonny_tuesday]

Oh for a happy medium lol!!
I've had legionnaires disease margaret - and very nasty it was too, I can't give blood because of it. It was in South Africa - a long time ago. There were five of us had it, three died!!!
Its horrible, It took them ages to find it because the blood samples had to be sent to Pretoria to the Tropical Diseases place.
i'm ok now though lol.
Bonny x
PS Could do with some air con in my house a the moment!

[bonny_tuesday]

OOps, forgot to say Lettie, we were in an outpatients place, it wasnt in a ward, but I do know what you mean and agree with you in those circumstances. Its corridors, and waiting rooms etc. But like I said, its difficult to find a happy medium. I had to go to a ladies room and open the window, i was almost passing out!!! The staff probably get acclimatised to it and it was probably a bit chilly to them lol!
Bonny x

[Mick]

While in Hospital after my Heart Attack it was so hot one of the other patients relatives actually passed out with the heat on the ward.
although they would not open a window they came round and put a oscillating fan next to each bed to cool the patients down

[lettie]

Originally Posted by bonny_tuesday

OOps, forgot to say Lettie, we were in an outpatients place, it wasnt in a ward, but I do know what you mean and agree with you in those circumstances. Its corridors, and waiting rooms etc. But like I said, its difficult to find a happy medium. I had to go to a ladies room and open the window, i was almost passing out!!! The staff probably get acclimatised to it and it was probably a bit chilly to them lol!
Bonny x

The staff do become acclimatised, it makes for high home heating bills in the winter when you are used to being so hot all the time lol..

We always open our corridor windows at night, but we get those big moth things flying in, we have to try to ease them back out of the window with a newspaper. We also had a bat which flew in last year, we had to catch it in a small sheet and put it out of the window. Believe me, that's the last thing you need when you are horrendously busy.

[bonny_tuesday]

Or sat on a bedpan Lettie lol