A middle aged domestic helper,
whose name is given as Selvi woke up one morning with a “crawling sensation” in
her right nostril that turned to a “burning” feeling in her head. Amazingly,
what medical experts found inside the woman was a live cockroach right inside
the lady’s SKULL.
Baffled medics used a nasal
endoscopy to find the creepy crawly "sitting in the skull base between her
eyes".
After much efforts, the medical
experts were able to get out the cockroach with clamps and a sucker alive from
the lady.
The team of medical experts were
impressed that Selvi did not overlook the scratchy sensation, saying that if
the insect had died while still in her, it would have caused an infection close
to her brain.
Selvi, from Injambakkam, India,
who did not want to give her full name, said: "My immediate reaction after
feeling that crawling sensation in the right nostril was to brush it off in
half sleep.
"But before I could do
anything, it went inside. I could not explain the feeling but I was sure it was
some insect.
"There was a tingling and
crawling sensation. Whenever it moved, it gave me a burning sensation in my
eyes.
"I spent the entire night in
discomfort, sitting up and waiting for dawn to go to Stanley hospital after
getting the reference of a doctor from my employer."
Selvi and her son went to the
nearest clinic after the incident on Tuesday, but claim nobody could find
anything wrong.
The next day she went to
state-run Stanley Medical College Hospital, in Chennai, where doctors found the
live roach.
Dr M N Shankar, head of the ENT
department at the hospital, said: "This is the first such case I have seen
in my three decades of practice.
"If left inside, it would
have died before long and the patient would have developed infection which
would have spread to the brain.
"It was difficult to remove
it because of the place it was sitting in.
"I had to first drag it to a
place from where I could pull it out.
"It was finally removed
after 45 minutes."
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