{"id":213,"date":"2007-02-15T21:13:05","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T03:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=213"},"modified":"2008-07-23T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T00:50:08","slug":"maggot-debridement-therapy-mdt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Maggot Debridement Therapy (MDT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicaledu.com\/maggots.htm#Current%20status%20of%20maggot%20therapy\" target=\"_blank\">In January 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began regulating medicinal maggots<\/a>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Medicinal maggots have three actions: 1) they debride (clean) wounds by dissolving the dead (necrotic), infected tissue; 2) they disinfect the wound, by killing bacteria; and 3) they stimulate wound healing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The link above contains a wealth of information, FAQ, and links to further resources, should you need them.<\/p>\n<p>And you can get yerself some maggots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monarchlabs.com\/orders.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure how well they travel though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In January 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began regulating medicinal maggots&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Medicinal maggots have three actions: 1) they debride (clean) wounds by dissolving the dead (necrotic), infected tissue; 2) they disinfect the wound, by killing bacteria; and 3) they stimulate wound healing.&#8221; The link above contains a wealth of information, FAQ, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}