A young man suffering from a maggot infestation in his ear had to have then painstakingly removed with tweezers.
The maggots, visible as a wriggling white mass deep in his ear, were feeding off his flesh. If left untreated, they could have burrowed into his brain and killed him. . .
Dr Vikram Yadav, who treated the man and later uploaded the video to Youtube, explained the houseflies invaded the man’s ear while he was sleeping. After laying their larvae in his ear, they hatched into hundreds of maggots, which fed off his flesh. . .
The infestation is known as aural myasis. It is usually seen in children younger than 10 years of age or in debilitated individuals. It is treated by suffocating the maggots, applying anti-parasitic drugs and by manually removing them. Sufferers might experience buzzing in their ear and notice smelly discharge, and it can cause deafness. . . If anybody sleeps, a child, an old person, and you see any houseflies there, put some cloth on their face so they don’t enter into the orifices and lay their eggs. Prevention is better than cure
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