Cockroach chews a hole in Chinese woman's eardrum after crawling in while she was asleep
Insect remained inside patient’s ear for two days
A woman in southern China had a close call with a cockroach after the insect crawled into her ear and started chewing a hole in her eardrum, Chinese media reported.
A doctor at Renkang Hospital in Dongguan, Guangdong province, extracted the cockroach two days after it crawled into the 20-year-old woman’s ear while she was asleep on Tuesday, Guangzhou Daily reported on Thursday.
“I felt as if needles were being poked in my ear at that time,” the woman was quoted as saying. “I didn’t expect it would be a cockroach. I thought the pain was from when I tried to scoop out earwax with an earbud.”
She later realised it was a bug and tried to kill it by putting some drops of oil in her ear.
“Later it seemed to have stopped moving and I was busy with work, so I left it there for two days before heading to the hospital,” she said.