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Bridgend-based biosurgical company ZooBiotic, supplier of innovative wound care products to the healthcare industry, has made two pivotal appointments.…read more (link will open in a new window, pdf)
A South Wales specialist nurse has been awarded an MBE for services to nursing - endorsing her tireless work in promoting the extraordinary success of maggot therapy in wound healing…read more (link will open in a new window, pdf)
Pouring Maggots into wounds for medicinal purposes comes back…read more
Local MP Madeleine Moon has today given her support to local company Zoobiotic … read more
ZooBiotic, a laboratory in my constituency, produces clinically sterile maggots for medical use. Maggot therapy is a potent tool in the treatment of wounds and a potential weapon in the battle against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus …read more
Maggots clean wounds 18 times faster than normal treatments, can conquer MRSA and would save the NHS millions. Peta Bee reports.
It's enough to make your skin crawl - yet flesh-eating maggots being applied to a festering wound that fails to heal could become a familiar sight in our hospitals. Last week Madeleine Moon, Labour MP for Bridgend, hailed maggots as an alternative to expensive antibiotic gels and lotions. She pointed out that maggots could speed recovery times, help to free hospital beds and fight MRSA. In a parliamentary motion backed by 35 MPs from all parties, she urged the Government to carry out clinical research into the widespread use of maggots.
Recent studies have indicated that maggot therapy can cut treatment duration from 89 days to just five, and slash the cost from £2,200 to £300 per patient.
Moon describes the grubs as "a highly cost-effective, highly efficient but forgotten and undervalued method of treatment", and Caroline Flint, the Public Health Minister, says that using fly larvae (maggots) is "increasingly common" and "an illuminating idea"
In trials in Wales and Manchester, says Moon, patients not only recovered faster but noticed less smell and felt less pain from their rotting flesh when maggots were allowed to eat it. "Maggots are highly precise," she says. "Unlike surgeons, they remove only the rotting tissue. Surgeons have to cut out healthy tissue to clear the wound, thereby creating a larger wound and more bleeding."
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