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When the 27-year-old Harris-Rochelle from Derby returned from vacation in Peru, she thought that the cause of her headaches was return flight to the UK.
But after a few hours, half of her face began strongly get sick, and the woman began to hear strange things in her head, scratching sounds. The next morning, Rochelle woke up and found that her pillow was saturated with fluid leaking from her ear. Female became the hero of the new Discovery Channel documentary, which is called “Beetles, Bites and Parasites”, whose authors follow at the work of specialists faced with patients traveling for border, and upon returning complaining about various mysterious symptoms.
Soon after returning to the UK, Rochelle visited emergency department at Royal Derby Hospital since began to suspect that her health problems were more serious than she assumed. Doctors were not initially worried about her symptoms. and suggested that they were caused by minor ear infections, or the bite of an infected mosquito. For further research, Raschel was referred to an ENT doctor to rule out more sinister problems, however, the specialist who examined the woman’s ear did unpleasant discovery. In the patient’s ear canal, he found a small hole and stated that further research is needed to find out what’s the matter. After almost an hour’s examination, passing in complete silence, Rochelle, and her mother, who accompanied the girl, asked the doctor if he managed to deliver diagnosis. “My mother asked the doctor:” You can say that with her not right? “, to which the doctor stated that he would like to speak with the registry, before voicing his assumptions to us, ”says Rochelle. -But mom continued to insist and then the doctor said in my ear larvae. After these words, I instantly burst into tears. “Doctors tried pull the larvae out of the woman’s ear, but the deeper the doctors penetrated ear, the deeper they retreated to Rochelle’s head. “I was very afraid that they will end up in my brain, “the girl admits. Doctors held an emergency scan of Rochelle’s head to find out how much in the head of the larvae, and where they hide, since there was a risk that they migrate to the brain. If the larvae reached the girl’s brain, then they could trigger meningitis or deadly bleeding. In addition, the larvae could eat one of her facial a nerve that would paralyze the girl’s face. Fortunately, tomography is not revealed no damage to the eardrum or facial a nerve. To kill the larvae, doctors filled Rochelle’s ear canal olive oil however the next day they were surprised to find that they are still alive. They managed to extract two larvae, but still were worried that there might be more inside. Having studied the girl’s ear using a microscope and a mirror, surgeons were shocked that found. When they penetrated even further into the ear, they found large cluster of wriggling larvae. As shown further study, eight large larvae settled in Rochelle’s ear. Then they were immediately sent to the laboratory for analysis, where revealed that eggs in the girl’s ear were laid by a fly of the genus Apocephalus.
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Subsequently, Rochelle said that she remembers how being in Peru she passed through a swarm of flies and one of the flies flew into her ear. The woman immediately drove the insect away and would never have thought that the fly managed to lay eggs in the ear in a few seconds.
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