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When a tourist came to one of the hospitals in Bali with a strange with a red trace on the abdomen, doctors decided that it was a symptom of an allergy. Later it turned out that the Aesculapius were greatly mistaken.
21-year-old Dylan Thomas from Western Australia spent vacation with friends in bali but last weekend was forced to interrupt his vacation to seek medical attention help to one of the island’s hospitals. The reason for the appeal was strange a red mark that suddenly appeared on the skin of a young man writes Mail Online
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At first, doctors took a long red stripe for a symptom. allergies to an insect bite, and therefore prescribed to the patient antihistamines and reassured him by saying that soon time will pass. As it turned out later, the doctors were wrong. The thing is that the next day, Dylan’s condition worsened – by a pathological element showed drops of liquid.
“On Sunday morning I woke up and realized that apparently the diagnosis was wrong, recalls the Australian. – The trail is covered bubbles with liquid, so I had to turn to to a dermatologist. ”
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A re-examination finally indicated the cause. a strange trace: a specialist found out that under the skin of a tourist a spider travels, and he laid a path in the form of red stripes.
“Finding out who settled inside me, the doctors conducted a small operation and pulled out from under the skin of a spider. He was small – no more the size of a match head, says Thomas. – After extraction the doctors said that the spider penetrated the skin through a small scar, remaining on the skin from a previous operation – I was removed appendix”.
According to the Australian “Spider-Man”, throughout several days during which an arthropod lived in his body, he did not experience discomfort: movements under the skin or pains.
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“To know that a living being has invaded your body is quite unpleasant. I still feel uneasy at the thought that a few days in there was a spider in my body, ”he added.
Dylan was unable to tell reporters what kind of arthropod was his “neighbor”, but noted that he would find out soon time.
“The tropical spider was taken to the laboratory for testing, so soon I’ll find out what kind of spider it was, ”Thomas explained.
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