> I’d think leeches would be that exception; they’re currently the best thing for re-attaching fingers and such because their method of drawing blood increases the bloodflow.
Yep, leeches are okay.
Maggots, on the other hand... Years ago as a wildlife rehabilitator I often had to clean out the wounds, and sometimes the eyes and ears, of little creatures that had been abandoned long enough that they were maggot infested. Nothing turns my stomach like a baby animal whose poor little face is covered in a squirming mass of maggots. Ye gods, awful!
By comparison, tapeworms, roundworms, even ticks, aren't so bad. [Shudder!]
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Still pretty disgusting, but I understand maggots are used
“for debriding non-healing necrotic skin and soft tissue wounds, including pressure ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, neuropathic foot ulcers, and non-healing traumatic or post-surgical wounds.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy