Health Update: Saving the bacon

Tuesday 30 November 1993 00:02 GMT

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WHY waste a bacon rasher to remove maggots from under the skin (as advised in Update, November 2) when Vaseline and plaster will do the trick? In a letter to Update, Dr George Nurse, a former professor of community medicine in Papua New Guinea, advises anyone returning from the tropics with this problem to smear the affected area with an air-impermeable substance such as Vaseline, and then cover it with adhesive plaster. In a bid to reach air, the maggot will cross the Vaseline and hopefully end up stuck to the plaster.

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