Doctors extract 26 cockroaches from man's ear (video)

01 September 2015 - 02:00 By Staff Reporter
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A man's routine visit to the doctor for earache took a horrific turn when he discovered he had a family of cockroaches living in his ear.

Mr Li, who lived in the city of Dongguan, in the southern Chinese region of Guangdong Province, woke up in the night complaining of a painful and itchy right ear, the Independent reported.

When Yang Jing, a doctor at Chang'an Xiaobian Hospital, peered inside his ear, he "saw an insect-shaped object blocking his ear canal completely." Dr Yang, talking to TVS and The People’s Daily Online, said he extracted the female roach from the ear, with the insect measuring 0.8cm long.

Doctors then found 25 baby cockroaches inside the ear canal, with doctors believing the female roach had laid the eggs inside the ear several weeks earlier.

 

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