"Dead Ant... Dead Ant... Dead Ant, Dead Ant, Dead Ant!"
Posted on 06/01/2011 11:15:26 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Taipei, May 20 (CNA) It is not unusual for mothers stop their children from eating in bed, but now doctors are also telling their patients the same thing -- if they don't want ants crawling into their ears.
Although it is common to find small bugs in the ear canals, a local doctor said Friday that he recently found as many as 25 dead ants in the ears of a 16-year-old girl.
Before seeking medical help, the girl, who has a sweet tooth, had been suffering from ear pain for several months, said Hung Yaun-tsung, chief of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at Taipei City Hospital.
Hung suspected that her habit of eating cookies and cakes in bed lured the ants into her ears, causing unbearable itching.
"She confided that she would pick her ears while eating snacks and later go to sleep without brushing away the crumbs, " the doctor said. "The ants might have found their way into her ears following the cookie crumbs and stayed there because there was enough food there to keep them alive."
The ants he found, however, were dead upon examination, possibly because the girl had dropped some oil into her ears to ease her discomfort, Hung said. Her inflamed eardrums improved after medication and no ants were found in follow-up sessions.
Ear pain resulting from insect intrusion is common, said Hung, who receives patients with small cockroaches, mosquitoes and ants in their ears on a daily basis. "But it's the first time that I've found so many ants in both ears," he added.
He noted that sufferers can put a few drops of cooking oil into their ears to kill the bugs if immediate medical attention cannot be obtained. "But remember not to scratch your ears, because it could push the bugs
My mother told me not to put beans in my ears
Beans in my ears
Beans in my ears
My mother told me not to put beans in my ears
Beeeeeans in my eeeeears!
And now I know why...
Ants produce formic acid in huge quantities. It’s very ouchy stuff.
Reading this story makes me want to reach out for the nearest Q-Tip.
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Haven’t you heard that you’re never supposed to put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear?
I am grossing out and going for the q tips and peroxide in a moment.
Reminds me of a movie where a girl had baby spiders coming out of a cyst... Or the kid with a tree that rooted in his eye.
Thanks for that post.
Yuck.
Did your mother tell you not to stand on your head and stuff beans up your nose? There was that kid who did not listen and the beans sprouted up there.
Some people don’t listen to good advise and then bad things happen.
Next thing we know the food police, Mitchie Obama and the WHO will ban eating in bed so you are already one step ahead of the game.
"Dead Ant... Dead Ant... Dead Ant, Dead Ant, Dead Ant!"
The cookie angle is most likely a benign causal placebo. Sometimes ants just end up where they shouldn't.
I do not, but every now and then I wake up with a dog chewy stuck to my butt.
GAAAK!
but eating in bed gives me the willies.... Gee,....No shut up, damn it.
but eating in bed gives me the willies.... Gee,....No, shut up, damn it.
How do dead ants eat girls ears?
It was less the fact that the girl had ants in her ear than the fact that they found plenty to eat there. That brought the hurl reflex.
“I do not, but every now and then I wake up with a dog chewy stuck to my butt. “
Boy, you’re getting more action in bed than I do. Got any tips?
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