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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch.

 

Wednesday's Nation newspaper said Anan Temtan, who lives in the tsunami-hit southern resort island of Phuket, had used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding.

"We believe flies might have gone inside his ears to lay eggs, which hatched into larvae and caused the itching," said Somsak Nonthasri, the doctor who treated him.

Somsak, who used tweezers and a small suction device to remove the maggots, said Anan would be kept in for observation for a while to make sure no more eggs hatched.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/n...land_maggots_dc

Yummy!

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doesnt this story make your ear itch...?

wait... WTF! is that what i think it is! damn ear wax

j/k :p

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There was a similar case.

Well, Here's Your Problem Right Here, Ma'am ...

Fri Apr 8, 2005 01:39 PM ET

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong hiker washed her face in a freshwater stream, not noticing that leech had wormed its way into one of her nostrils, according to the Hong Kong Medical Journal.

Unaware she was playing host to the creature, the 55-year-old woman only consulted a doctor when her nose started bleeding intermittently about two weeks later.

The unusual case occurred in 2003 but doctors highlighted it in this month's edition of the journal, where they discussed how to remove live leeches from human nasal passages using anesthesia.

The first doctor the woman saw could not find anything wrong and it was only when she visited a second doctor that he saw the five-centimeter (two-inch) leech peeking out of her left nostril.

According to the article, doctors only managed to remove the stubborn bloodsucker with forceps after applying anesthesia to the woman's nose.

"Direct removal of a live leech might be difficult because of its powerful attachment to the mucosa and its slimy and mobile body," the journal said.

Reuters

Doctors remove 5cm bloodsucking leech from HK woman?s nose

(DPA)

8 April 2005

HONG KONG - Doctors have removed a 5cm bloodsucking leech from the nose of a Hong Kong woman, a news report said on Friday.

The leech is believed to have entered the 55-year-old woman?s nose and lived there for three weeks after she washed her face in a freshwater stream infected with leeches while hiking.

She began suffering from nose bleeds and blockages but a private doctor who examined her failed to spot the leech, the South China Morning Post reported.

The woman went to an accident and emergency unit when the nose bleeds continued and the leech slid out of her nose then crawled back in while she was being examined, the newspaper said.

Doctors eventually removed the leech by applying anaesthetic to her nose which made the leech go rigid. It was pulled off with forceps.

Dr. Chow Chun-kuen, who treated the woman, said the leech could have dug deeper into her nose and even carried on into her lungs if it had not been removed.

Khaleej Times

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