Pam
05-06-2005, 11:05 AM
Doctors remove 50 maggots from Thai man's ears
Source: Reuters
BANGKOK, April 27 (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.
:eww: :faint: Just the thought of anything "alive" in my ear freaks me out - let alone MAGGOTS!!
My nanna kept complaining she could hear a buzzing sound in her ears .. a check up revealed a tiny beetle was trapped deep in her ear!
Source: Reuters
BANGKOK, April 27 (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.
:eww: :faint: Just the thought of anything "alive" in my ear freaks me out - let alone MAGGOTS!!
My nanna kept complaining she could hear a buzzing sound in her ears .. a check up revealed a tiny beetle was trapped deep in her ear!