Maggots in the skin?
 

Alright, so my girlfriend just told me this story that her friend told her tonight. It started off as "Well XXXX told me that her roomate's friend's friend's friend had this happen" So right off I think "Alright, just like every other urban legend."

She continues to say how one night, the girl in question got really drunk, gave some random guy head, and then passed out with his cum all over her face. She woke up the next day and cleaned it off and had a little bit of a rash. A few days later, it was worse, and hurt. She went to the doctor's, and found out there were maggots in her face. According to this doctor, the only way for that to happen is if the guy had recently had sex with a corpse. After some investigation, turns out that the guy worked at a funeral home!

Now as soon as she finished I said I don't believe that, and before I could talk any further she got upset with me because she hates when I do that. I feel bad for upsetting her, but what am I supposed to do, lie and pretend I beleive it?

That part of the thread could go somewhere else in the forums, but I dunno. Anyways, it got me to thinking, how can maggots possibly get in the skin?

I read a story about a woman who got maggots on her face while in the hospital. A fly was in the room and maggots were found in the patient's nose near the feeding tube.

I also remember reading a story a while back about a man in Asia somewhere that had an ear infection and was putting cotton from the fields in his ear to ease the pain, and ended up putting fly eggs into his ear, and they all turned into maggots and lived there for a while before being found.

Both of these occurances weren't exactly inside the body, but near an orifice. How would maggots possibly get under human skin, is it possible?

Look at Snopes and you'll have your answers.

Maggots have been used in wound therapy in the past; particularly those kinds of maggots who like to feed on necrotic (dead) tissue.

I've heard this same urban legend with spiders laying eggs in peoples scalps that don't wash their hair enough, as well as cockroach eggs getting in someones gums after eating something with the eggs on them. I've never heard from a direct source about these things. This sounds like another of those tales to me.

considering coprpses are embalmed w/ all sorts of stuff that is designed to inhibit the decaying process, and that funeral homes/morgues are typically pretty antiseptic, the likelyhood that he got this is true is slim to none. I'd say your friend is full of shit, or the person who told your friend is full of shit.

Its possible but she would of needed a open wound for them to get into. But as far as transfering from the guy to her i really doubt it. Maggots can be good for you anyway. they eat away dead flesh and dead flesh is really toxic. They are still used to clean out some wounds when other methods dont work or cant be used for whatever reason. Back in the day before antibiotics maggots could save people from infection by eating away the infected flesh. ahh such a plesant thought... glad i already ate lunch.

It's unlikely flies would lay their eggs on a healthy/living animal to begin with. Many species of maggots will only eat dead tissue (thus their already-mentioned use in wound care), so if the eggs did manage to hatch on intact skin, they'd find little to eat.

OTOH, if the hypothetical girl had really bad acne, for example, you could chain together enough circumstances where it would almost be plausible, though highly improbable, that she passed out covered in semen, some random fly laid eggs in the semen, blah blah. The huge HUGE red flag is the "could only happen if he'd had sex with a corpse" bit. Spontaneous generation was given up a couple centuries ago. Maggots don't come from rotting meat, they come from fly eggs.

Maybe it's botfly larvae. I wouldn't think it would come from a necrophiliac tho.

After reading that post im always going to question my cotton bud before cleaning my ears :P

I don't believe the story.

If she was going down on a necrophiliac, the maggots would end up in her mouth if he had not washed himself after sexual intercourse with possible corpse.

And semen doesn't die right away. It can stay alive for six days, so, maggots in semen would be impossible.

However, if she had touched fly eggs, and had necrotic acne, and then touched her necrotic flesh with her contaminated hands, then maybe maggots would appear. I have seen just how fast fly eggs become maggots. It's not pretty.

I saw that when it was on TLC.
I watched it. I don't know why I did, I really did not need to see it, but I did.

exactly!!! WOW! that grossed me out. i don't know what else i could say about this.. :eek:

Yea thats one gross video, I got the shivers from watching that.

http://www.snopes.com/risque/juvenile/corpse.htm

It's an urban legend.

Gilda

I beg to differ my friend. I have seen many many maggots living and feeding on live animals. Happens all the time. The animal gets a wound and the fly comes along and there ya go. The maggots enter the wound and will live there for however long.

Unfortunately I have also had to clean out the said maggots from the animals. Sometimes being a vet tech is priceless.

i thought they only fed on dead tissue!

The funny thing about the maggots I have witnessed living in animal wounds, was that the tissue was not dead or dying. Most of the time the wounds were fairly new and not that deep at all. I think that maggots are truely creatures of oppertunity, they take what they can get.

I've heard this same story, It's an urban legend...unless we heard it from the same person... I somewhat doubt it.

true or not... it is gross.
considering how many flies there are in the coop kitchen...
yeah definitely giving me something to freak out about. thanks!

Ahhh .... the Berkeley coops haven't changed a bit, I see.