Man Seeks Treatment For Face And Lips Swelling, Doctors Find 150 Live Bugs Inside His Nose
Doctors at a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida removed 150 live bugs from the nose of a patient. The unidentified patient sought medical help last week after his face and lips started swelling in a matter of hours.
In a shocking incident, doctors at a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida have removed around 150 live bugs from the nose of a patient.
According to local media reports, the unidentified patient sought medical help last week after his face and lips started swelling in a matter of hours.
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Doctor left shocked
On February 9 the patient visited the HCA Florida Memorial Hospital, and what he found during the examination left the experienced ENT Doctor shocked.
He noticed something moving in the patient¡¯s nasal cavity and after getting a camera to look inside, the doctor found dozens of living pests just living in the man¡¯s sinuses, feeding off of him.
"We took a camera and looked in the nose and that's when things dramatically changed," Dr. David Carlson told local media.
Bugs were close to patient's brain
¡°I knew he was in big trouble, there was erosion that was occurring near the skull base in very close proximity to his eye and his brain," Dr. Carlson said, adding that some of them were as big as the end of his pinkie.
The larvae inside the nose were scurrying around and looking for places to feed and others had burrowed into tissue, he said.
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150 live bugs pulled out
The doctor tried to immediately remove the larvae but failed.
"We tried to remove them with suction but it clogged the suction. They were large enough that I couldn't get them with the suction, we ended up having to remove them one by one using different instrumentation," he said.
Some 150 bugs were removed from his nose, and the patient is expected to make a full recovery.
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How did they get there
While the bugs have been removed, doctors are still clueless about how they ended up there.
It is believed that the patient had neuroblastoma 30 years ago, which resulted in the removal of a cancerous tumor in his nose and left him with an extremely compromised immune system, which may have exposed him to some infection.
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