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. 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.
| Posted: at | |
TRENDING GISTS 
Tension Rise Again In Plateau As Bandits Attack Market, Kidnap Five And Steal Goods
Portable Reveals He Made N70M in Three Days After Fight With Speed Darlington (Video)
VIDEO: Man Caught While Waiting For a Minor he Had Solicited S£x From Online
Rapper, Phyno Unveils His Daughter, Shares Adorable Video to Mark Her Second Birthday
Ex Madrid Player, Xabi Alonso Seals Managerial Move To Real Madrid As Ancelotti Bows Out