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Doctors remove maggots from woman's nose
May 03 2005 at 07:40AM
Bangkok - Threating what appears to be becoming a common complaint in the kingdom, Thai doctors recently removed 34 maggots from a woman's nasal cavity after she came to hospital complaining of a swollen cheek, media reports said on Tuesday.
Doctor Tawee Thanuparp-rangsan, of Nakorn Ping Hospital in Chiang Mai, 560 kilometres north of Bangkok, said the 38-year-old woman had checked in to the hospital complaining of severe pain in her left cheek.
"I checked her nasal cavity and found a lot of fly maggots there," Tawee told The Nation newspaper. Doctors had to operate on the woman, a pig farmer, removing 34 maggots from inside her nose.
"Probably while she was sleeping, a fly went up her nose and laid its eggs, which then hatched into larvae," Tawee speculated.
It was the second such operation reported in Thailand in recent weeks.
On April 26, Thai doctors removed 50 maggots from an 84-year-old man's ears who had sought treatment at a hospital in Phuket, 660 kilometres south of Bangkok, for extreme itchiness in the orifices.
Doctors speculated that the octogenarian may have gotten the ear infestation while working at an open-air market, notorious for their flies. - Sapa-dpa
Doctors remove maggots from woman's nose
Doctors remove maggots from woman's nose
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