You may have heard the news recently that doctors in India actually removed a live cockroach from inside a woman’s skull.
A 42-year old woman in Chennai was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday (Feb 1) after she felt suffered from burning sensations and inexplicable pains around her nose and eyes. A nasal endoscopy revealed a menacing cockroach – a live one – sitting inside her skull between her eyes!
Apparently it had been there for 12 hours – she actually recalled that an insect had actually crept into her nostril. Even though she tried to blow her nose, the dastardly creature managed to find a stay put in her skull. And whenever it moved, it gave her a burning sensation between her eyes – yikes!
The stubborn roach clung onto the tissues even though doctors tried to vacuum it with a suction apparatus; it was after forceps were added that the creature was finally pulled out. After 45 whole minutes.
But wait for it. This wasn’t the only cockroach-inside-a human incident on that same day (Feb 1).
A Chengdu man in China apparently had a cockroach crawl inside his ear, and it was apparently stuck there for 3 whole days. Imagine being able to hear the little bugger move around!
After exhausting all options of removing the critter (including toothpicks and tweezers), he resorted to spraying insecticide into his own ear.
The bug spray killed the roach, but it also damaged the 60-year old man’s ear canal, trapping the dead bug inside. So he had to go to the hospital to remove the 1cm-long cockroach carcass, which doctors extracted successfully.
At least his bug was small enough – in 2014, a man in India actually had a 3 inch-long cricket crawl into his ear, and doctors managed to pull it out alive! Ewwwww. Watch the vid below if you dare.
Doctors did give advice should anyone else get bugs trapped in their ears – just pour some mineral oil (baby, olive, etc) into the ear to suffocate it.
