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AustinTreeLover t1_j5k2r7m wrote

Reply to comment by daihlo in 'People are shocked': the Welsh firm breeding maggots to heal wounds. by filosoful

My parents were medical providers and they told me about using leeches. That was in the 1990s.

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TheDrakeRamoray t1_j5qetix wrote

They still use them. Especially in surgical fields when you do a reconstruction with a flap to decrease the amount of venous congestion (blood pooling up). When they are done eating you throw them into a bucket of alcohol and they explode.

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