using a dog to lick your wounds...

[kyle]

Here's another link debunking the myth.

I don't read anything about.com puts out

Here's some evidence-backed ambiguity from Straightdope.com

http://www.snopes.com is another good one. They were one of the original online databases of myth debunkers.

[TheBlunderbuss]

http://www.snopes.com is another good one. They were one of the original online databases of myth debunkers.

Indeed, except Snopes currently doesn't have anything on dogs licking wounds.

[zombievt]

In my W-EMT Class, we learned that you can use your own urine to clean wounds. Your urine is sterile unless you've ever had a bladder/kidney/UT infection.

Now this I've heard of before.

[Flashbang_E4T]

That is correct. If the person providing the urine is sick it may not be a good idea but otherwise its ok to use. Itll sting like a bitch though due to the mineral (mainly salt) content.

[ZombieCleaner]

Ive only heard of urine working for jelly fish stings, or vinegar. I dont think letting a dog lick your wounds it a good idea. However, putting maggots, or leeches on the would will help. Its a scientific fact. The leeches suck out and bad blood and the maggots eat away any dead, decaying or bad flesh.

[kyle]

Ive only heard of urine working for jelly fish stings, or vinegar. I dont think letting a dog lick your wounds it a good idea. However, putting maggots, or leeches on the would will help. Its a scientific fact. The leeches suck out and bad blood and the maggots eat away any dead, decaying or bad flesh.

It greatly depends on the species of maggots and/or leeches and how they are cultivated. Grabbing any of maggot or leech from the wild and sticking it to a wound will probably get you a nasty infecton and make it much worse.

[Flashbang_E4T]

Ive only heard of urine working for jelly fish stings, or vinegar. I dont think letting a dog lick your wounds it a good idea. However, putting maggots, or leeches on the would will help. Its a scientific fact. The leeches suck out and bad blood and the maggots eat away any dead, decaying or bad flesh.

Not to be a dick, but more accurately its a scientific fact that leach's dont do a damn beneficial thing, and can only sap your power while threatening to spread disease to you. Thats why we stopped bleeding people to cure them 150 years ago. Moggots on the other hand can be useful to eat away the debrid a wound. It will hurt a bit but they only like to munch on dead flesh.

[bigred7070]

Not to be a dick, but more accurately its a scientific fact that leach's dont do a damn beneficial thing, and can only sap your power while threatening to spread disease to you. Thats why we stopped bleeding people to cure them 150 years ago.

Not to be an uber-dick, but we have been using leeches in modern medicine for a few years now. They are used when a limb or digit is reattached and any excess blood that pools from leaky veins collects and needs to be removed before it clots. No offense flashbang but you throw out a lot of shit without researching it first, IMHO.

[ZombieCleaner]

Lets not start a flame war...thats what got me the asshat titles not to long ago.

[bgaesop]

Also, you're both right! Leeches are used in modern medicine to bleed off excess blood and other fluids in wounds where it is building up, but they do not take out "bad blood" and they are not used very often.

[TheBlunderbuss]

It is SO HARD to find laboratory leeches for sale on the internet.
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umm. uhhh..

[Shai'tan]

All that being said, I still rather use something like vodka or isopropanol to disinfect a wound. I'd take my chances rather than letting a wound get urinated or salivated on (even if it was by those animals that have saliva with healing properties).

[Donny_Cash]

I think I will stick to my med kit.

[Flashbang_E4T]

Not to be an uber-dick, but we have been using leeches in modern medicine for a few years now. They are used when a limb or digit is reattached and any excess blood that pools from leaky veins collects and needs to be removed before it clots. No offense flashbang but you throw out a lot of shit without researching it first, IMHO.

You cannot be construed as an a dick of any varying quantity if you are calling me an an apparently ignorant remark I made. You are apparently correct that they have been known to be used in modern medicine. However I think it important to point out that it appears that their use is more fringe medicine and far from standard practice. Another important point is the same leaches used today are not plucked from the local marsh and thrown on a patient as they would have to be in the PAW thus most likely negating their benefit through threat of disease. That and I was correct that we do not bleed people to cure then anymore as leaches (AFAIK) were used a century ago to do.

[bigred7070]

Another important point is the same leaches used today are not plucked from the local marsh and thrown on a patient as they would have to be in the PAW thus most likely negating their benefit through threat of disease. That and I was correct that we do not bleed people to cure then anymore as leaches (AFAIK) were used a century ago to do.

Point taken. I certainly wouldn't be using wild leeches. They might have rabies.

[frostbyte]

I would like to interject here that maggots do not only eat dead flesh and if any fresh blood is found in the wound area after using maggots to eat dead flesh then the wound needs to be cleaned often and checked for maggots before redressing the wound.

The best way that I know of to cultivate a supply of maggots is to first expose the wound to flies and then cover with a bandage, checking every day for maggots until they hatch.

to be sure, I believe this method should only be used as a last resort.

[frostbyte]

oh, and having been a vet assistant, I would not suggest letting a dog lick your wounds.

[TheBlunderbuss]

There have also been many cases of live maggots in someone's wounds, in their vagina, and in their brain.

[frostbyte]

as for animal/human contact, this is a good website to look at.

http://research.ucsb.edu/connect/pro/disease.html

it gives a good idea of who carries what and to whom it can be transfered.