A horrifying incident of a cockroach crawling in a man’s ear!
Although it is not very common, an insect can enter your ear and stay there for some time. In a similar case, a cockroach burrowed into a 40-year-old, Wedding’s ear while he was swimming. The cockroach entered his left ear and stayed there for 3 days. He was swimming in his local pool in Aukland, New Zealand when the creature crept inside his ear. Similarly, by the time he got home, he felt as though his ear was blocked.
According to the patient, he used ear drops to clean his ear later that day. However, when he woke up the next morning, his ear was still blocked. “When I woke up in the morning and it was still blocked I went straight to the doctor. I was waiting for the doctor [surgery] to open up, it was that infuriating,” he said.
Assuming that he may be experiencing blocked water in his ear, initially, the doctor advised him to go home and use a hair drier to dry his ear out
However, the 41-year-old knew that something didn’t feel right. “I left the doctor with no relief at all. I spent most of the weekend laying on my side or jamming a hairdryer in my ear. When I had to walk around I would instantly be dizzy. When I would lay down, I could hear the water moving around my eardrum,” he said.
He tried everything he could for relief, including ear candles, jumping on one leg and chewing gum. He even went for a run. On Sunday night, the wriggling suddenly stopped. However, his ear was still blocked. The patient then booked an appointment with an ear, nose and throat specialist on Monday. According to Wedding, as soon as the doctor looked in his hear, she said, “”Oh my god, I think you have an insect in your ear.”
“In that moment I realized every movement I’d felt over the weekend was the cockroach moving around in my ear. I instantly thought of the fact I had just been pumping hot air into my head and cooking a cockroach in my ear canal all weekend. It made me feel sick,” he said.
It took the doctor less than five minutes to extract the cockroach from the patient’s ear. The cockroach in his ear explained everything. The sensation of water moving in his ear was actually a cockroach moving in his head. This is why the water would move even when he was still. He felt a pop as soon as the doctor pulled away and it was instant relief.
Source: CNN