Flesh-Eating Maggots In Ear: Briton's Horror

The woman discovered maggots had chewed a 12mm hole in her ear canal after she returned from a trip to South America.

英國一名27歲女性，今年和男友前往秘魯游玩，在回英國的飛機上，開始感到頭痛，腦子里不斷傳出刮擦聲，第二天起床耳朵還流出大量液體，她急忙就醫。起初，醫生以為只是單純的耳朵感染，但進一步的檢查發現該女子的耳朵里居然有蛆，可能是蒼蠅飛入她的耳朵產卵然后孵化，這些蛆吃著她耳朵里的肉慢慢進入耳朵深處，醫生在女子的耳朵里發現一個被啃食12毫米大小的洞。最后開刀取出了8只巨蛆，這些蛆經查明是食肉蒼蠅的后代，不幸中的萬幸，群蛆還沒有進入大腦，否則這位女性將可能患腦膜炎，還可能臉部癱瘓。

He reposing,said that we will just try our best to get it out.

The buzzing stopped. Rechelle assumed that was the end of it.Within 48 hours on her flight home,she was in serious trouble.

An expetiating,unstopping pain that never relented.

One of the team spotted a small hole in Rechelle's ear canal.

She spent quite a lot of time looking at my ear without saying what was in there.I think it was after about an hour,Mamon asked,you know,can you see what it is.

The doctor had seen there was something could have the orginary going on her ear.

The doctor said if you don't mind I prefer to go to be the registrar before I tell you anything.And then,Mamon said please tell us then.And I said as well,you know,no,please,I want to know.And that's when she said you got maggots in your ear.

Doctors ordered the CT scan to establish what damage that has already been done.How many maggots were still inside Rechelle and where they were hiding.

I was very scared as they were in my brain,I thought you know this could be very,very serious.

Our main concern was the facial nerve at risk.And the facial nerve controls all of the muscles and expression on that side of your face.

The scan showed Rechelle's ear-drum and facial nerve were undamaged but the maggots have chewed a 12 millimeter hole in her ear canal.

Although the CT has guided us as to the size of the cavity,it was important for us to have a full explore around the soft-issue cavity and make sure that it was not extending any danger,like the facial nerve or blood vessels.

Given Rechelle's traumatized state,she was sedated in preparation for surgery.Unsure of what they just might find,the surgical team explored Rechelle's ear using a microscope and a speculum.

And as I push the speculum through the hole that was opened, I saw a massive of maggots.

It was clear that the maggots already extracted weren't dying alone.