Maggot Therapy

The other night I read about maggot therapy right before going to sleep. Maggot therapy is the use of maggots (fly larvae) in certain wounds as a debriding and antimicrobial agent. The maggots selectively eat away necrotic tissue leaving live tissue unharmed while giving off antibacterial secretions to which many skin populations of bacteria are not immune. Perhaps because the generational cycles of flies are rather quick, I wonder if the maggots’ antibacterial properties are able to keep up with the resistance that bacteria can develop in just a few generations (?). At any rate, I really like the idea of maggot therapy actually. But then that next morning about half an hour before my alarm went off I had a dream that I woke up at 8:48 am, just 12 minutes before class was to begin. Panicking to get ready and run out the door, I went to the bathroom to freshen up and low and behold half of my face and right shoulder and pec region were decaying and yellow puss was oozing out. Meanwhile, packs of maggots were in bundles on my skin and I could feel them writhing. When I woke up the thought of maggot therapy wasn’t as appealing as the night before.