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this is one of the worst things that could happen to one's ear, methinks. just plain creepy.
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Spiders make home in boy's ear
Albany, Oregon
May 7, 2007 - 9:21AM
These guys were not exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop.
What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear - "like Rice Krispies" - ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.
"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.
One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear - "like Rice Krispies".
Dr David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.
When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.
Jesse was given the spiders - now both dead - as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.
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Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:44 pm Posts: 8910 Location: Santa Cruz Gender: Male
Even more creepy, I read about someone once who had an ant crawl inside their eye duct and laid eggs. They didnt know anything about it until at one point a few hundred ants came crawling out of his eye duct.
They said it was all painless, and the doctor basically just had him wait until they all came out.
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Buggy wrote:
Even more creepy, I read about someone once who had an ant crawl inside their eye duct and laid eggs. They didnt know anything about it until at one point a few hundred ants came crawling out of his eye duct. They said it was all painless, and the doctor basically just had him wait until they all came out.
*jitters*
jebus. i think i'd stick my face underwater and start blinking furiously.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:02 am Posts: 3279 Location: Department K, North of 60
I remember reading a book of urban legends when I was younger that was jam-packed w/ stories like some of the ones mentioned here.
- girl lays out sun-bathing. Ants crawl into nose while she's sleeping, lay eggs. Later much scratching ensues until she begins tearing off her flesh.
- girl w/ beehive hairdo refuses to wash and instead keeps spraying her hair to maintain its figure. Girl drops days later convulsing on floor. As they ready her for the funeral, they let her hair down to reveal that some insects (roaches?) had burrowed their way into her brain (moral: wash regularly: cleanliness is next to godliness)
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corduroy_blazer wrote:
JimNasium wrote:
Meh. It'd suck, but it's far from one of the worst thing that can happen to your ear.
go on...
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We examined 18 temporal bones from 11 of the divers. Bleeding into the middle ear and mastoid air cells was nearly universal. Inner ear damage included hemorrhage around Reissner's membrane and the round window membrane and rupture of the utricle and saccule. Most of the observed inner ear damage was not surgically treatable.
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Auditory nerve tumors usually grow from the vestibular (balance) nerve. Hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness, and unsteadiness are early symptoms. If the tumor grows larger and compresses other parts of the brain, such as the facial nerve or the trigeminal nerve, weakness and numbness of the face may result.
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Myringitis is caused by a variety of viruses and bacteria; the bacteria Mycoplasma is a common cause. The eardrum becomes inflamed, and small, fluid-filled blisters (vesicles) form on its surface. Blisters may also be present in otitis media; however, in myringitis, there is no pus or fluid in the middle ear.
Pain begins suddenly and lasts for 24 to 48 hours. There may be some hearing loss.
And of course:
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Buggy wrote:
Even more creepy, I read about someone once who had an ant crawl inside their eye duct and laid eggs. They didnt know anything about it until at one point a few hundred ants came crawling out of his eye duct. They said it was all painless, and the doctor basically just had him wait until they all came out.
*jitters*
that is so god damn gross!! I have sucked plenty of flies up my nose before but nothing as creepy as spiders or ants. I will probably be sleeping with goggles and ear muffs from now on.
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