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.

英国一名27岁女性，今年和男友前往秘鲁游玩，在回英国的飞机上，开始感到头痛，脑子里不断传出刮擦声，第二天起床耳朵还流出大量液体，她急忙就医。起初，医生以为只是单纯的耳朵感染，但进一步的检查发现该女子的耳朵里居然有蛆，可能是苍蝇飞入她的耳朵产卵然后孵化，这些蛆吃着她耳朵里的肉慢慢进入耳朵深处，医生在女子的耳朵里发现一个被啃食12毫米大小的洞。最后开刀取出了8只巨蛆，这些蛆经查明是食肉苍蝇的后代，不幸中的万幸，群蛆还沒有进入大脑，否则这位女性将可能患脑膜炎，还可能脸部瘫痪。

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.