01-11-2011, 11:16 PM
I thought you were going to say it was her husband up her ass.
4 times I've seen or removed a large roach from an Asian or Far Eastern patient, each took up residence in the ear as a nymph or juvenile, then as it grew and consumed copious amounts of wax, proteins, and whatever other nasty microbes your ears harbor.......We'd spray flouromethane to freeze the insect, then remove it with forceps.......Amazing how much space they can occupy in there, and the moral to the story is "Keep your house clean, and don't sleep on the floor"
When I had a med lab in So. Lake Tahoe, Ca., in the late 1970's, one of the MD's sent a patient over suffering from abdominal bloating and anemia. When we saw the bloodwork, we knew the guy was sick. When he showed up in the waiting room, he exhibited an unusual tic or repetitive sinus/facial movement. I asked him to lean back, and put a light in his upper palate, then up his nose, and I saw it. I removed a four foot tapeworm, after I made him drink some magnesium compound to irritate the nematode, and get it to relax it's scolex, (pincers), Then like a piece of black spaghetti, I wrapped it around one, then another hemostat. I still want to vomit when I remember that experience.
4 times I've seen or removed a large roach from an Asian or Far Eastern patient, each took up residence in the ear as a nymph or juvenile, then as it grew and consumed copious amounts of wax, proteins, and whatever other nasty microbes your ears harbor.......We'd spray flouromethane to freeze the insect, then remove it with forceps.......Amazing how much space they can occupy in there, and the moral to the story is "Keep your house clean, and don't sleep on the floor"
When I had a med lab in So. Lake Tahoe, Ca., in the late 1970's, one of the MD's sent a patient over suffering from abdominal bloating and anemia. When we saw the bloodwork, we knew the guy was sick. When he showed up in the waiting room, he exhibited an unusual tic or repetitive sinus/facial movement. I asked him to lean back, and put a light in his upper palate, then up his nose, and I saw it. I removed a four foot tapeworm, after I made him drink some magnesium compound to irritate the nematode, and get it to relax it's scolex, (pincers), Then like a piece of black spaghetti, I wrapped it around one, then another hemostat. I still want to vomit when I remember that experience.