Doctors are using blood suckers, or the common leech, to help save limbs. Following radical surgery to fingers and toes, normal blood circulation must return within 48 hours or there is a risk of amputation. Leeches stimulate circulation by draining excess blood and reducing a condition caalled blood congestion which can cause that part to die. Nurses apply the leeches like bangages. Once the leeches fill up with blood they fall off and are replaced by new ones. Animal rights activists are upset because the old leeches are destroyed.
April 05, 2006
Leech Therapy
Doctors are using blood suckers, or the common leech, to help save limbs. Following radical surgery to fingers and toes, normal blood circulation must return within 48 hours or there is a risk of amputation. Leeches stimulate circulation by draining excess blood and reducing a condition caalled blood congestion which can cause that part to die. Nurses apply the leeches like bangages. Once the leeches fill up with blood they fall off and are replaced by new ones. Animal rights activists are upset because the old leeches are destroyed.
