Man Dies After Being Eaten Alive By Maggots (Content Warning)
Austria: A 61-year-old man has died on his way to hospital after being eaten alive by maggots. Police are questioning the man´s 34-year-old partner who reportedly shared a bed with him for the last decade.
The man, who had by paralysed by a stroke a couple of years back, was reportedly not keen on being washed. When paramedics were called in his back had been partially devoured by maggots.
How do you not notice Maggots eating your partner? Surely there must have been quite a few and surely she must have noticed a maggot or two in the bed??
...but I have my doubts about the maggots killing him. Maggots don´t usually eat living flesh. In my opinion, then, he probably died of blood poisoning or necrosis affecting his organs.
I think I know what happened. Bed ridden patients are prone to getting pressure sores which in a matter of hours become open wounds. They happen anywhere the skin is contact with the bed, which is why turning of bed ridden patients in vital to their care. If he was not keen on being washed as the news reports, he was likely not turned. If you are just a "partner" you are possibly unaware of the fact that this can happen. It would only take one fly to lay its maggots in there and if the pressure is not releases, the skin continues to become necrotic (die) which maggotts just LOVE.
I think you´re probably right. Plus, because maggots only eat dead tissue it would have kept the odor of decaying flesh down which would have further masked the problem.
How is it that he only died after he was eaten? Also the maggots would not have killed him, they only eat decayed flesh. Sounds like he developed a gangrene from not being moved frequently enough. If anything, the maggots prolonged his life.
don´t know why I read this article much less commented on it. I have to disable the comment link. With that said, the man was definately not properly cared for by his partner. He was paralysed so even if he did not enjoy being washed, he couldn´t beat the partner for it. You gotta do what you gotta do and aparently this person did not. I wonder if any charges will be made against the partner.
Good thought. I wonder how many maggots there were. I wonder this because maggots have a distinct smell to them, which is close to what a dead carcass smells like anyways so..
I only know this because I had to shovel mounds & mounds of maggots before. When there are mounds of them they sure do move fast, & smell horrible. Even if they eat the dead meat they still give off that smell.
I tend to agree with you, the lack of hygiene killed him, the maggots probably were doing him a favor and eating away dying flesh. any doctors in the house?
No, but I do know that controlled maggots are beneficial, but something like this where they are to their own devices (where & how) they get out of hand & eventually do the job that their good at.
@ Verm if only I hadn´t had to do it ^_~
@ JOhn E Angel you´re a quick one, how´d you know the party is full of a bunch of maggot eatin´ lizard bellies from a third world?
There is no controlled maggots, they were used throughout history to babysit wounds. Eventually they turn to flies, fly away and leave a clean healing wound behind them. Maybe certain species then?
As for content in the summary, stop teasing me guys, i saw no media, only text.
