Operation Needed To Stop Worms Eating Into Brain

[george]

CHIANG MAI EMERGENCY: Woman host to maggots

Operation needed to stop worms eating into pig farmer’s brain

CHIANG MAI: -- An unsuspecting woman didn’t realise she was host to dozens of infesting maggots until her left cheek became so badly swollen that she needed an immediate operation.

Dr Tawee Thanuparp-rangsan, at Nakhon Ping Hospital, said yesterday that the 38-year-old patient came to see him at the end of March, complaining of severe pains in her left cheek.

“I checked her nasal cavity and found a lot of fly maggots there,” he said.

The doctor explained that the maggots had been feasting on tissue inside the patient’s nasal cavity, leaving large festering wounds. The maggots had already eaten away so much tissue that some of the patient’s bones were exposed, he added.

The woman was immediately anaesthetised and operated on. Tawee removed 34 fly maggots in all from inside the woman’s nose. “She then needed antibiotics to treat the bacterial infection for five straight days before being allowed to return home,” he said.

The patient was a pig farmer exposed to a huge numbers of flies on a daily basis. “Probably while she was sleeping, a fly went up her nose and laid its eggs, which then hatched into larvae,” the doctor speculated.

He believed this had been Thailand’s first reported case of fly maggots growing in a human’s nose. He added that had the woman delayed seeking medical help, thereby allowing the infection to spread to her brains, she would have likely died.

The woman has not been the hospital’s only case of a human serving as host to parasites.

Last Tuesday, another physician at Nakhon Ping Hospital, Dr Ladawan Harnpairote, found an eight-centimetre-long leech attached to a male patient’s larynx. The 19-year-old man had been referred from another provincial hospital.

“The patient told me he was suffering from a chronic sore throat and felt there was something alive moving inside his throat,” Ladawan said.

The doctor discovered a sizeable leech inside the man’s throat and quickly removed it.

The hospital’s director, Dr Khemrassamee Khunsuekmengrai, stressed that such gruesome and dangerous afflictions were easily preventable.

“People should by no means drink water from creeks,” she advised. “The water may contain a baby leech and if it attaches itself to your throat and gets bigger there, it can eventually block your respiratory tract and kill you.”

She also urged people in rural areas to regularly clean their houses to prevent their homes becoming breeding grounds for flies, worms, cockroaches and other parasites.

--THE NATION 2005-05-03

[drbones666]

"...allowing the infection to spread to her brains, she would have likely died."

^^^^

Brains? Plural? Wow, Thais really are gods chosen ones. Up to now only they knew it.

[devildog683]

i'll never had this problem

when God asked me if i wanted a brain, I thought he said "trade" so i said "no thanks already have one!"

[peter991]

People in rural areas do tend to clean the inside of their houses regularly - sometimes 5 times a day. Australia would have to be the fly capital of the world but I have never heard of this happening here.

Maybe I have just been lucky. I think I'll wear a Michael Jackson face-mask 24/7 now, just to be on the safe side.

[devildog683]

a Michael Jackson face-mask

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[McAttack]

I saw a doco on the TV the other day where they use maggots to clean out infected wounds. Maggots only eat dead or rotting flesh. It has been common practice for hundreds of years. This lady must have had a growing infection inside her nose for the maggots to keep eating and growing.

Must have done some real damage going for a "hardy" at the back of the nose

[Ajarn]

Last Tuesday, another physician at Nakhon Ping Hospital, Dr Ladawan Harnpairote, found an eight-centimetre-long leech attached to a male patient’s larynx. The 19-year-old man had been referred from another provincial hospital.

At least a month ago.... TNA accuracy, again.

Well, at least the news is free

[tuky]

i'll never had this problem

when God asked me if i wanted a brain, I thought he said "trade" so i said "no thanks already have one!"

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Sure you didn't think he said train, and missed yours?

Seriously, this is the second case in a week, scary.

JD, please do not post those pics again mate.

[dragonmasterzip]

Brains?  Plural? 

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Waht never heard of the saying, she was of two minds?

[devildog683]

i've heard the term brains before, but usually when someones talking about an injury in which "brains were protuding from the head"

[dezeure]

i'll never had this problem

when God asked me if i wanted a brain, I thought he said "trade" so i said "no thanks already have one!"

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Sure you didn't think he said train, and missed yours?

Seriously, this is the second case in a week, scary.

JD, please do not post those pics again mate.

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PICS??? Where? I wanna see that. Wa

[LivinLOS]

Look for Scampy's DiY Salmon / Sushi thread.. posted a link in there thats not for the squeemish..

[george]

Update:

Slugs and maggots prompt hospital admissions

CHIANG MAI: -- A woman who wakes up to find that a fly has laid eggs in her nostrils and that they have hatched out into 34 maggots.

A teenager who drinks river water and discovers that he has swallowed a slug which gets stuck in his throat.

It sounds like the stuff of urban myth, but these are two bizarre cases which have recently come to the attention of an ear, nose and throat specialist in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Mai.

The first case, according to Dr. Khemrasamee Khunseukmengrai from Nakhon Phing Hospital, involved a 38 year-old resident of Koi district who last month came to hospital reporting a swelling in her left jaw.

An examination discovered the presence of 34 maggots in her nostrils, each maggot over one centimetre long.

Removed under anaesthetic using special tweezers, the maggots could have started worming their way into the patient's body and eating her eyeballs if left untreated.

Although it is not certain how the maggots came to be in the woman's nostrils, it is thought that a fly must have entered her nose when she was asleep and decided to lay its eggs there.

As if that case were not bizarre enough, Dr. Khemrasamee also claims to have treated a second patient, a 19 year-old youth from Mae Jaem district, who reported feeling a living creature wriggling in his throat after drinking water from the local stream.

His worst fears were realised - the living creature turned out to be an eight centimetre-long slug, which had got stuck in the teenager's windpipe.

It was eventually removed under anaesthetic.

Both patients are now said to have made full recoveries from their strange afflictions, and have been discharged from hospital.

--TNA 2005-05-03

[Thetyim]

Look for Scampy's DiY Salmon / Sushi thread..  posted a link in there thats not for the squeemish..

If that is the same piccy I came across a few weeks back whilst surfing then it really is a stomach wrencher.

I am nor going to do a search and check, I do not want to see it again.

[astral]

Did I really need to know this??

[barryofthailand]

This was just on the news channel 7 in Thailand last night. Showed the doctor taking the worms out of the ladies nose, and throat. Also showed another doctor taking the leach out of the boys throat.

[medicinebox]

Look out for the next documentry

"When Leeches turn nasty"

[Jai Dee]

JD, please do not post those pics again mate. 

You big WUSS!!!!

[DaveYo]

Golly, now you have to really wonder about Thai people. Her nose must have been DEAD for some time, since the fly made the bombing run layed the eggs, and simply got sucked down into her stomach like some vacuum cleaner.

Here is what I wonder now, when you see Thai people with red cheeks first thought will be whether or not they have maggots underneath or when you hear they have a sore throat whether or not there some leech lurking in their necks.

Daveyo

[peter991]

Good to see that we are all getting so hygiene conscious. Just when I thought it was safe to leave my room, I receive the following email:

ALWAYS WASH IT FIRST!

A stock clerk was sent to clean up a storeroom in Maui, Hawaii. When he got back, he was complaining that the storeroom was really filthy and that he had noticed dried mouse or rat droppings in some areas.

A couple of days later, he started to feel like he was coming down with a stomach flu, complained of sore joints and headaches, and began to vomit. He went to bed and never really got up again. Within two days he was severely ill and weak. His blood sugar count was down to 66, and his face and eyeballs were yellow. He was

rushed to the emergency at Pali-Momi, where he was diagnosed to be suffering from massive organ failure. He died shortly before midnight.

No one would have made the connection between his job and his death, had it not been for a doctor who specifically asked if he had been in a warehouse or exposed to dried rat or mouse droppings at any time They said there is a virus (much like the Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat and mouse droppings. Once dried, these droppings are like dust and can easily be breathed in or ingested if a person does not wear protective gear or fails to wash face and hands thoroughly.

An autopsy was performed on the clerk to verify the doctor's suspicions...

This is why it is extremely important to ALWAYS carefully rinse off the tops of canned sodas or foods, and to wipe off pasta packaging, cereal boxes, and so on. Almost everything you buy in a supermarket was stored in a warehouse at one time or another, and stores themselves often have rodents. Most of us remember to wash vegetables and fruits but never think of boxes and cans.

The ugly truth is, even the most modern, upper class, super store have rats and mice. And their warehouse most assuredly does!

Whenever you buy any canned soft drink, please make sure that you wash the top with running water and soap or, if that is not available, drink with a straw.

The investigation of soda cans by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta discovered that the tops of soda cans can be encrusted with dried rat's urine, which is so toxic it can be lethal. Canned drinks and other foodstuffs are stored in warehouses and containers that are usually infested with Rodents, and then they get transported to retail outlets without being properly cleaned.

Please forward this message to the people you care about....

~I JUST DID~

Scary stuff!!!