Maggots chew toward woman's brain


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Doctors in Thailand have removed almost three dozen maggots from a woman's nose, where they were eating their way towards her brain. The 38-year-old pig farmer is believed to be the first reported case in Thailand of maggots nesting in a human's nose.

The woman visited the doctor in late March, complaining of excruciating pain in her left cheek. The maggots had eaten so much of her nasal tissue that cartilage was exposed. The doctor anesthetized the woman and during an operation removed 34 maggots from inside her nose. She was then treated with antibiotics.

As a pig farmer, the woman was exposed to many flies every day. "Probably while she was sleeping, a fly went up her nose and laid its eggs, which then hatched into larvae," the doctor said. "If the infected area had spread to her brain, she could have died."

Last week, an old man had 50 maggots removed from his ear, after he went to a hospital complaining of an itch. He had scratched his ears so hard that they started bleeding, and doctors said that flies apparently had gotten inside and laid eggs. Also last week, the same hospital removed an eight-centimetre-long leech from the throat of a 19-year-old man who had complained of a sore throat.

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I read about that on the weekend. It's so disgusting, I can't bear to think what it would be like if the maggots were in my own nose. :x

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TheLittleKid says this is pure BS, maggots will NOT eat healthy tissue it is a well known fact of nature. They have been used by doctors since Napoleon.

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TheLittleKid says this is pure BS, maggots will NOT eat healthy tissue it is a well known fact of nature.  They have been used by doctors since Napoleon.

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She was a pig farmer from Thailand... how healthy could that tissue have been?

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The Little Kid is right. It's a hoax. Maggots don't live in healthy tissue. Doctors even use maggots to treat people with dead tissue in their wounds, they leave out the healthy tissue.

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TheLittleKid says this is pure BS, maggots will NOT eat healthy tissue it is a well known fact of nature.  They have been used by doctors since Napoleon.

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Why the hell are you talking about yourself in third person? Are you seth cohen?

Back to topic, this is disgusting. Poor women though, must feel kinda stupid not knowing she had over 30+ maggots in her nose. :wacko:

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