Posted on 07/19/2013 3:36:34 PM PDT by rickmichaels
LONDON - A British woman returned from a holiday in Peru hearing scratching noises inside her head to be told she was being attacked by flesh-eating maggots living inside her ear.
Rochelle Harris, 27, said she remembered dislodging a fly from her ear while in Peru but thought nothing more of it until she started getting headaches and pains down one side of her face and woke up in Britain one morning with liquid on her pillow.
Thinking she had a routine ear infection caused by a mosquito bite, she sought medical treatment at the Royal Derby Hospital in northern England, where a consultant noticed maggots in a small hole in her ear-canal.
"I was very scared. Were they in my brain?" said Harris, recounting her ordeal in a new Discovery Channel documentary series called "Bugs, Bites and Parasites" to be aired in the UK from July 21.
Doctors tried first to flush the maggots out of the ear using olive oil.
"It was the longest few hours that I have ever had to wait... I could still feel them and hear them and knowing what those scratching sounds were, and knowing what that wriggling feeling was, that just made it all the worse," she said.
When flushing the maggots out failed, the medics resorted to surgery and found a "writhing mass of maggots" within her ear, raising concern they could eat into her brain.
The surgery removed a family of eight maggots. Analysis found that a New World Army Screw Worm fly had laid eggs inside Harris's ear.
"I'm not so squeamish around those kinds of bugs now. How can I be? They've been in my ear!" Harris said.
candiru fish
LOL! Hands down!
Can do you tell me what they are called?
I never saw that episode!
Yuck! We used to tell a story just like that at sleepovers to creep each other out.
If I were her, I would have wanted to be sedated. I can't believe that she stayed awake for the therapy.
candiru fish
This is actually pretty common down there. Ordinarily they bore into the flesh of cattle, but if you’re unlucky they’ll get you too. I saw a program on the Animal Planet where this guy had them on the top of his head. He could hear noises too, but everybody treated him like he was nuts, since they were only active certain parts of the day. It wasn’t until maybe a second or third doctor finally noticed... “uhhh, these bumps on your head are moving.”
It’s been my impression that south america has a host of parasites such as is described in this story, as well as a wealth of dangerous animals. Not so much here. I’ve been to many places in this country and world, but I’ve never picked up a parasite like this.
"I got this little green worm in my head...and it glows in the dark"
New World maggots must be the same running the New World Order.
They are equally disgusting.
Kenyan Bot flies, eh? Uncle Sam has a similar ‘pimple’ located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
It was quite a shock to both of us. In the big picture, though, it is easier to get flesh eating maggots out of your child than removing those ideas and attitudes that consume your soul.
Growing up in Africa and seeing how much of the “rest of the world” lives helped inoculate our kids against nearly all of those insidious concepts.
They’ve turned out well and the maggot holes healed long ago.
It will take Benadryl for me to sleep tonight.
yes I am yelling I HATE COONS, NASTY VERMIN THAT KILLED MY BABY TURKEYS AND GOT INTO MY HEN HOUSE AND KILLED 1/2 OF MY HENS AND ONLY ATE ONE...IT TOOK THE OTHERS IT KILLED AND PUT THEM IN THE ATTIC OF THE HEN HOUSE. MASERATED ONE GUINEA HENS LEG THAT I WAS ABLE TO SAVE. CHEWED A HOLE IN THE ROOF OF ANOTHER OLD ICE HOUSE THAT HAD A FEMALE TURKEY AND HER CHICKS AND KILLED 3 OF THE BABIES...RABID CARRYING, GROWLING AND SPITTING, I WOULD THROW THE WHOLE LIVE TRAP INTO THE POND, THEY WERE DEAD WITHIN A COUPLE OF MINUTES....iT WAS HUMANE, ONLY TOOK 2 BREATHS AND THEY WERE DEAD. If anyone thinks that is horrible, tough noggies...they can also eat all your corn without pulling it off the stalk.... Rabbits they just decapitate, like they do farm fowl...one bite of the hens neck and the head falls off.....
A “writhing mass of maggots” AND New World Army Screw Worm
I think we have found out why Dingy Harry Reid is the way he is!
So say one of these things invades Obama’s brain by the ear: will he get smarter or dumber?
Or just be the same maggot?
I’ll second that...
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