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Doctor Finds Spiders in Boy's Ear
News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 1:03 PM EDT
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These guys were not exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop.
What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear - "like Rice Krispies'' - ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.
"They were walking on my eardrums,'' Jesse Courtney said.
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Seriously considering sleeping with earplugs in.
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#1 - Mon May 7, 2007 1:04 PM EDT{"commentId":690325,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
... in my ears.
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#2 - Mon May 7, 2007 1:04 PM EDT{"commentId":690329,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
... oh nevermind.
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#3 - Mon May 7, 2007 1:05 PM EDT{"commentId":690537,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}
LOL and with your mouth closed. I've heard some scary things about how many spiders you can swallow in your sleep. Makes me happy I have a CPAP and have to keep my mouth closed to breath.
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#4 - Mon May 7, 2007 2:12 PM EDT{"commentId":690826,"authorDomain":"tke132"}
This sounds like one of those urban legends where a kid would have a zit on his/her forehead and it would just keep getting bigger until it popped and out came a bunch of baby spiders. Ew.
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#5 - Mon May 7, 2007 4:03 PM EDT{"commentId":690849,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}
No, stuff gets in people's ears all the time, here are guidelines that include how to remove these things, including live insects. Roaches, spiders, etc. And then there's the stuff kids PUT into their ears, like beans:
The ears are pretty handy gadgets to have and are used for other things than hearing. Frequently a very young child came in with foreign bodies in the ear, but there was a Boy Scout, about fourteen years old who had a bean pushed so far into an ear that he required an anesthetic to extract it. He was performing before the group of Scouts. He put the bean into one ear, to pull it out the other ear, and accidentally got it in too far. Then there was the man who came in with a note folded and placed in an ear. He very nonchalantly reached up, took the note out and reminded himself of the question his wife had told him to be sure to ask. Also, when we had streetcars for transportation, there was a chap who always carried a dime in his ear to have handy. It was easier than searching through his pockets. from the Patients are People, Too
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{"commentId":690863,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
tke
come on, that really happened ....to a friend of a friend of a friend of mine. ;-)
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{"commentId":690880,"authorDomain":"tke132"}
I got water in my ear after my eardrum was punctured during a soccer game in high school. That was probably the strangest feeling I had up to that point. I still don't remember if it hurt - I was just so freaked out by the fact that I could feel water that far inside my head. It was pretty scary, but nothing bad came of it - I like to think.
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#6 - Mon May 7, 2007 4:22 PM EDT{"commentId":690978,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
eww - reminds me of that urban legend that if an earwig gets into your ear, you can hear it eating its way through your brain.
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{"commentId":691003,"authorDomain":"tke132"}
We could ask those guys from Star Trek 2. They know what it is like to have worms/bugs eating their way into your head.
Okay, new topic!
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{"commentId":691244,"authorDomain":"doublee"}
MAN THIS IS DISGUSTING! I'M GONNA PUCK AFTER THE EARWIG THING!
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#7 - Mon May 7, 2007 6:27 PM EDT{"commentId":691797,"authorDomain":"tiso"}
As a professional spider specialist, I have to say there is something very fishy about this story. Spiders are solitary animals. One spider in an ear? A remote possibility! Two spiders? No way! If this is not a hoax (they could be rubber spiders for all we can see in the photo), then there is no doubt in my mind that some human put these spiders in the kid's ear; and the first one killed the second one as soon as it entered. As to who did the deed and why, there would seem to be several possibilities and no data to decide between them. Anyway, human misbehavior is not my department - spiders are... See my Spider Myths Web Site.
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