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.
I dont remember, I shall have to go back into my posts…
Surely these posts cannot be taken to have any meaning 5 minutes after they are posted.
Actually, I dont know Ohio Guy, you guys are confusing me now…I wish I had my cup of coffee earlier… Id be able to think …
perhaps I cant think straight because I have itchy ears… some I can hear a funny sound … perhaps its tinitus
perhaps…
Oooh, my hatchlings are popping out of my ears … I have 200 little cutie wutie fly babies, they are SOOOOOO Sweeet
Minah, Im no hunny bunny, i have horns and a pitchfork to prove it:dixsi:
As long as they bring little gifts, little baby grow's with room for wings, little teddies to put in their room and a Winnie the Pooh ABC and 123 freize so the little darlings can learn how to read and count.
and when they gro up ,
one will be a teacher, one will be a doctor, one will be an engineer and one will be......
oh, and the girls will all have nice arranged marriages!
Hey Roman!!! Do you remember telling us the story of the fruit fly infestation of your apartment about a year ago? It was winter. It was cold. You were probably wearing ear muffs to keep them warm and cozy. I bet the simple solution to your problem back then would have been to CLEAN YOUR D*MN EARS.
MV, no, I don't remember at all since that happened quite many times. Which specific time are you talking about? There are so many weeks and months in a year.
Maggots get a bad rap. They can actually used in surgical debriedment of wounds, particularly burns. They have a solution in their saliva that prevents infection, and they can clean a great deal of dead tissue in a very short period of time. It is not unusual to find them underneath large casts for broken limbs either.
Most people do find them itchy, and certainly in the ear, the chewing noise might be difficult unless you are old and bone deaf like our senior advisor, Attorney MyVoice.
And MV, I am quite cuddly, you just hate rejection.....
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the pests buzzing around your apartment at the time were Matsuis instead of fruit flies.