One partial solution for antibiotic resistance

Given the industrial uses of antibiotics, particularly in the raising of factory farmed meat animals, antibiotic resistance is on the rise. Solutions to prevent this are fairly commonsensical, like engaging in sustainable farming and just plain outlawing the use of antibiotics for the purposes of factory farming (which would have the added benefit of killing the factory farming industry). But there are other ways to treat health problems that for the past 50 years have been the domain of antibiotics.

Prior to the development of widespread antibiotic use, preventing infection in gaping wounds was often the job of, believe it or not, maggots. These lovely little creepy crawlies are exceptional at devouring dead flesh, and killing bacteria. They are, however, incapable of consuming living tissue.

While using maggots, raised in sterile conditions, to clean infections from wounds could certainly replace or augment the use of antibiotics, they wouldn't be able to help in the case of internal infection. So antibiotic resistance is still a very serious issue.

But it's nice to see old tech solutions that are effective and unpatentable make something of a comeback. I mean heck can't you just see it, little bottles of squirming bugs sold in pharmacies beside bottles of disinfectant? I think the biggest obstacle for most people would be the thought of dropping maggots into a wound, although I suspect that concern would lessen as people experience the benefits of faster healing.