For hundreds of years, maggots have been recognized as a treatment for wounds. Since the time of Napoleon, physicians knew that maggot-infested wounds healed faster. Only in recent times do scientists know why . Maggots secrete enzymes which break down dead and decayed tissue, which they then eat. Maggots will not attack or eat healthy tissue.
Maggots consume the tissue, along with the bacteria which infects it.
They use the common greenbottle fly, Lucilia sericata, in a sterile environment, to produce the maggots. Maggots on the eye of a needle . There is a lot of MDT being done on patients with diabetes. They often have foot and leg sores that won't heal because of poor circulation. Sometimes, nothing seems to help.