Posted on 02/19/2024 12:03:03 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WJW) — A Florida man is reportedly healing after a horrific amount of bugs were pulled from his nasal and sinus passages earlier this month.
“Over a couple hours my face just started swelling, my lips swelled, I could hardly talk,” the patient told WTLV in Florida. “My whole face felt like it was on fire.”
The patient, who was not identified, went to a nearby hospital for constant nose bleeds and pain, according to the TV station. What the ear nose and throat doctor on call found by looking inside the man’s nose, was like something out of a scary movie: dozens of live larva feeding on his inside face cavities.
“They were right up against his skull base, right under the brain,” Dr. David Carlson told WTLV. “Had they gone through that it could have killed him.”
Some of the bugs were reportedly as large as the tip of a pinky finger. About 150 of them were removed using a variety of instruments. The larva was then sent to a lab for testing.
Carlson made clear he’d never heard of anything like this occurring before in humans, and that people with normal immune systems would fight what’s known as Nasal Myiasis off naturally. He also said to always wash your hands after coming in contact with a dirty environment.
The patient, who reportedly started noticing symptoms in the fall, has a compromised immune system due to the removal of a cancerous tumor from his head decades earlier.
The patient, who has been prescribed an anti-parasitic and is expected to recover, likes to fish and told WTLV he plans to be far more cautious when cleaning dead fish.
Disgusting. No pictures please.
When I was a kid and women were wearing ‘beehive’, teased-up hairdos, there was an urban legend going around that some of these women dropped dead and bugs crawled out of their hair.
Maybe they’d been fishing...
I wonder if a Navage would have helped with that. I doubt it would have cleared very many of them. The Navage flush doesn’t get deep up into the nasal passages
Idiot.
Eat bugs...not snort bugs.
I’d go with the Neti-Pot.
is he related to Jimmy Durante?
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Of course it was Jacksonville
That is kind of what scares me about the American South. It’s Australia’s twin.
Nick, Tolerance beat you to the punch!
This reminds me of the guy who went to his doctor for pain and hearing loss in one of his ears. They extracted a huge cockroach from his ear canal.
Did they really count them? And how did they arrive at such a round number?
Musta had a durante sized honker?
How different really, is use of navage or neti pots and being waterboarded? Asking for a terribly claustrophobic friend.
How do you get a cockroach in your ear?
(I wonder....Ivermectin the wonder drug??)
seafoodhealthfacts.org/safety/parasites
"Parasites (in the larval stage) consumed in uncooked, or undercooked, unfrozen seafood can present a human health hazard. Among parasites, the nematodes or roundworms (Anisakis spp., Pseudoterranova spp., Eustrongylides spp. and Gnathostoma spp.), cestodes or tapeworms (Diphyllobothrium spp.) and trematodes or flukes (Chlonorchis sinensis, Opisthorchis spp., Heterophyes spp., Metagonimus spp., Nanophyetes salminicola and Paragonimus spp.) are of most concern in seafood. Some products that have been implicated in human infection are: ceviche (fish and spices marinated in lime juice); lomi lomi (salmon marinated in lemon juice, onion and tomato); poisson cru (fish marinated in citrus juice, onion, tomato and coconut milk); herring roe; sashimi (slices of raw fish); sushi (pieces of raw fish with rice and other ingredients); green herring (lightly brined herring); drunken crabs (crabs marinated in wine and pepper); cold-smoked fish (lox); and, undercooked grilled fish."
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