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xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas
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While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.
Maggots on wounds is a thing too. They only eat dead tissue
Wouldn't maggot poo or the eventual maggot corpses cause problems?
The maggots do the hard work cleaning the wound. Cleaning up the maggots and poo is easy by comparison. But yeah you don't want to leave them there forever, just enough to remove the dead stuff.
They are "medical-grade" maggots raised for this purpose to avoid germs.
Medical Grade Maggots is a good band name