Ewwwwwww! *Gross*

[AlCzervik]

Doctors remove 50 maggots from Thai man's ears

52 minutes ago


BANGKOK (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.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=856&ncid=856&e=1&u=/nm/20050427/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_thailand_maggots

[Bouncy Ball]

1. READING THAT MADE MY EARS ITCH

and now I have the heebie-jeebies.

Ewwwwwww.

[Montauk6]

2. awww man, didja HAVE TO????

[AlCzervik]

5. i warned you.

[Deja Q]

3. What, no pictures?

[AlCzervik]

6. no, that surprised me, i figured they'd at least one

[rockymountaindem]

4. Thank God for doctors

and their ability to tolerate such gross shit. Stuff like this and that 80 pound tumor etc. etc. really make me admire the intestinal fortitude of doctors and nurses.