Starexplorer2001 says: "LiveScience has a disturbing, but completely serious look at the scientific uses of maggots and leeches. Not just a medieval practice any more, maggots are being used more and more to save lives. Pam Mitchell, a normally healthy 52 year old woman, tried everything to treat her bad infection, but it was ultimately maggots that saved her life. Warning: Contains pictures that you probably don't want to look while eating."
Four years ago, a small cut on Mitchell's left heel turned into an diabetes-related infection two inches wide and down to the bone… the powerful antibiotic that doctors prescribed for her infection was also wreaking havoc on her bones.
Mitchell found a dermatologist willing to perform the [maggot] procedure, and soon had 600 live maggots wriggling inside the wound on her left foot, 400 in her right, where they were sealed in gauze and left for two days.
Today, Mitchell walks normally and both wounds are completely healed. She is now a member of the board for the Biotherapeutics Education and Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes the medical use of maggots
