Oh gross!

[Dee]

"Rice Krispies" noise in boy's ear turns out to be nesting spiders

ALBANY, Oregon (AP) - 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.

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear - "like Rice Krispies."

Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.

When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.

Jesse was given the spiders - now both dead - as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.

(source (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070506/koddities/oddity_us_spider_boy))

[hoops]

awww, a safe homed flushed away

[Stephen]

The itsy bitsy spider
Crawled up the ear canal
Along came the doctor
And washed out her and her pal

[Darlene]

I think that for the rest of my life I would wear ear plugs. Who cares about hearing.:eek:
Darlene

[Bat]

Poor kid! I remember getting a gnat in my ear once, and I just about lost it!
:eek:

[DaveM]

The stuff that usually comes out of one's ears when they are flushed is bad enough....

[Rkitko]

Poor kid! I remember getting a gnat in my ear once, and I just about lost it!
:eek:
I thought Bats were supposed to like insects? Yummy, no? ;)

[ponytail]

I thought bees liked waxy places, not spiders...:rolleyes:

[Bat]

I thought Bats were supposed to like insects? Yummy, no?


Oh quite! ...but I thought you knew bats don't eat through their ears!?;)

[sky]

Yuck, thats horribly disgusting!!! I actually had a nightmare about something like that before. In the nightmare I was cleaning my ear with a cotton swab and various types of spiders and earwigs etc kept on coming out over and over with no end. the more I tried to clean my ear the more bugs and the biger they got that came out of my ear until finally I woke up Yuck.
Sky

[Bat]

Yuck, thats horribly disgusting!!! I actually had a nightmare about something like that before. In the nightmare I was cleaning my ear with a cotton swab and various types of spiders and earwigs etc kept on coming out over and over with no end. the more I tried to clean my ear the more bugs and the biger they got that came out of my ear until finally I woke up Yuck.


You must have fallen asleep after hearing Bush or Cheney speak, and were trying to clean the awful stuff from your ears!:eek:

[Dee]

This whole sordid mess reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode where a guy put an earwig in another guy's ear and it ate its way through his brain causing him untold agonies. He was greatly relieved when it finally made its way through his brain and out the other ear, only to learn that while in there it had laid some eggs! :eek:

[Eva]

Dee, that's not Twilight Zone but Toilet Zone. As in *puke* Yes, that is gross.

I once operated a nest of larves out of my girlfriends back. Probably also some spider or other bug that laid her eggs in living creatures. In this case, my girlfriend. There was no doctor closeby so I had to do it.

If you want I'll tell you in detail how I performed the surgery... :D

Eva

[DaveM]

Sounds cool to me--surely, that has to be an essential pirating skill.

More than one larva? There are several flies (warbleflies/bott flies) that will lay an egg in a bite, but usually only one at a time. Cattle and dogs are plagued by them in some areas--I believe humans are rarely targeted but presumably it happens.

[Darlene]

originally posted by Dee
This whole sordid mess reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode where a guy put an earwig in another guy's ear and it ate its way through his brain causing him untold agonies. He was greatly relieved when it finally made its way through his brain and out the other ear, only to learn that while in there it had laid some eggs!
Hay Dee, I have seen that same Twilight Zone episode several times. I never seem to get over that horrible experience. It liked to killed him and I don't think anyone had ever lived through it before. But when they tell him it was a female and she had laid eggs in side his head, it still gives me the chills.:eek:
Not a very peaceful,
Darlene

[Rkitko]

Oh quite! ...but I thought you knew bats don't eat through their ears!?;)
Shoot. Knew I was missing something! Sonar in the ears, food in the mouth. Got it. ;)

[Eva]

My girlfriend said that something was hurt under the skin of her back. I examined it and had the strange idea that it was moving. My girlfriend went pale and said: "Get it out. Now!" So I did...

Well Dave, I lay all my tools out on a clean cloth in the grass. We were sitting next to our tent. It was a very sunny day, so I had good ligt. I cleaned her skin with a cottonswab with jodium. Luckily we had a lot of that. One might never know what happens on a vacation, right?

I heated up several needles from our sewingkit. Which wasn't easy because I kept burning my fingers. Oh well. Also I heat up a smaller knife from her fake swiss knifeset. The one we didn't use for cutting sausage and bread. Probably I ruined the knifeset while doing that but hey...

We both took a deep breath and I opened her skin. And there they were, those little wiggling, girlfriendchewing bastards. I was very angry at them. I mean, the only one allowed to painfully chew on my girlfriend is ME!

Anyway, to express my anger I stuck the needle through their gross little larveheads and pulled them out one by one. That would teach them! After I made sure everyone had been evicted I poured about half a bottle of jodium in the wound.

I didn't sew her up as the wound was not terrible big. Maybe one stich would have been usefull though if I look back at it. (Luckily it don't become inflamated. Phew!) All in all it had taken about 15 minutes. My poor girlfriend was glad it was over. I had kind of a good time but of course I hid that for my girlfriend.

Eva

[RedjackRyan]

note to self, if i'm ever stranded on a desert island, I want Eva queen of surgery with me.

[GodSistah]

And there they were, those little wiggling, girlfriendchewing bastards. I was very angry at them. I mean, the only one allowed to painfully chew on my girlfriend is ME!

*GASP*

:eek:

~Andrea~

[Darlene]

Man, That really makes me sick to the tummy. I can not imagine something under my skin moving around and then find out it was true. That there was something alive moving around in my skin. :eek: Faint!....................

[Eva]

note to self, if i'm ever stranded on a desert island, I want Eva queen of surgery with me.
Sure! I care for my crew, you know. And have some fun in the process... *evil grin* (of course I will never show that)


something under my skin moving around and then find out it was true. That there was something alive moving around in my skin.
Yep, it freaked out my girlfriend too. Only she wasn't the fainting type. I probably would be though :o Eeeeeeeww!

Eva

[aabram]

I know spiders like to make homes in strange places BUT..... :eek:

[DaveM]

Excellent, in addition to a pirate queen, we have a ship's surgeon as well. You never know when we might strike larvae.

[Eva]

I knew you'd like the story Dave. Tasty huh? :o :D :p

Eva

[Dee]

Eva

Of the many hats you wear (not to mention shoes), I guess we can now add Doctor to your name. ;)

[Eva]

Nae Dee, just a girl who likes blood *flutter eyelids*

Eva

[Dee]

Chewed gum found in Big Extra burger

Wed May 9, 12:25 PM

A Vancouver man says he's concerned about the possibility of contracting hepatitis after he found some chewed gum inside his McDonald's hamburger on Tuesday.

Max Ipinza was eating lunch with his co-workers at their office in Vancouver when he bit into his Big Extra and tasted peppermint.

He said he spit the burger out and quickly realized there was gum in it.

"Three quarters of the way through I end up tasting something like peppermint, like gum, and immediately I knew something was wrong, because this is not what a typical McDonald's burger tasted like.

"And so I decided to regurgitate everything back into the box and examined it, and it looked like gum to me. Immediately I felt very sick."

Ipinza went to hospital because of concerns he may have contracted hepatitis. Doctors told him to return if flu-like symptoms appear.

Ipinza said he believes somebody intentionally put the gum in the burger and that he will now be packing his own lunches.

McDonald's could not be reached for comment.

(source (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/09052007/3/canada-chewed-gum-found-big-extra-burger.html))

[GodSistah]

OMG, Dee, I just ate a burger for lunch, man!

:p

~Andrea~

[Dee]

Was it extra chewy? (Sorry, couldn’t resist.) :p

Could it have been a "gift" from whoever they sent out to get the lunch, I wonder?

So many questions, so few answers.

[Darlene]

OK it's gross out time! I was at Applebees eating my first bite and when I took my second bite it was hard to pull the bite from the bun. It was then that I saw a large wad of hair in the middle of the meat patty :eek: . I thought I was going to barf. I called the manager over and when he saw the burger I thought he was going to barf.
Of course they refunded my money and that of my friend with a free to eat at Applebees for 6 months. But after incidence who wants to eat there.
Getting sick all over again,:o
Darlene

[Oak Kitten]

I was watching one of those real life emergency room shows one night, and they showed this woman who was brought in carrying on like a raving maniac. She appeared as if she was having a bad psychotropic reaction to some drug, and was screaming about her head and thrashing around.

Upon examination, which was not easy for the doctor to do because the woman could NOT stay still - the doctor found a HUGE moth had burrowed into her ear and was in there fluttering and twitching. The doctor put some kind of anesthetic in the ear and flushed it out. I could not believe how big it was. How does something like that get in your ear in the first place without you noticing it?

By the way, it will never happen to me. I produce such prodigous amounts of earwax I could be a supplier to Yankee Candle. I know, Too Much Information. . .

Oak

[hoops]

eva, coooooooooooooooool... wish i could have been there, i could havre been your able bodied assistant :).
we seem to forget that all kinds of living moving beings are making their homes in our skin, mouths, nose ears etc. some are just bigger and more movy than others
peace
hoops

[DaveM]

OK....I'd really gag if I found gum in a burger, but....why would the guy be so paranoid about hepatitis?

[Dee]

Of course they refunded my money and that of my friend with a free to eat at Applebees for 6 months. But after incidence who wants to eat there.

Precisely.

When I was a teenager, I was racing home on my bike after dark from my friend Pam's house after a rehearsal practice for a local cable show we sang on sometimes. All of a sudden, a big June Bug (http://www.cirrusimage.com/beetles_June.htm) flew in my mouth. I spit it out quick and avoided crashing into any parked cars along the street. Needless to say I avoided any more late night riding after that.

Gross gross gross!

[Eva]

Of course they refunded my money and that of my friend with a free to eat at Applebees for 6 months. But after incidence who wants to eat there.
Yes, like: oh. I found something disgusting in your food. Now I want to eat here every day. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! :eek:


eva, coooooooooooooooool... wish i could have been there, i could havre been your able bodied assistant
Are you crazy? Those little buggers were mine. All mine! MWUHAHAHAHA! :p


we seem to forget that all kinds of living moving beings are making their homes in our skin, mouths, nose ears etc. some are just bigger and more movy than others
Ehm yes... and some use us not only as a home but also for food... :eek:


By the way, it will never happen to me. I produce such prodigous amounts of earwax I could be a supplier to Yankee Candle. I know, Too Much Information
Don't worry. You are just adding your experiences to the subject we are talking about: gross things. :rolleyes:

Eva

[aabram]

So how do we keep the bugs out!!!!???? I think Cocker Spaniels had the right idea when they evolved ear flaps. Maybe we should look at the ability to close our ears???? :D :rolleyes: :eek:

[DaveM]

In some parts of the world, one needs to worry not only about ears. In South America, there is a small fish which lives in many of the rivers and makes swimming a major hazard. Apparently this fish likes to swim into any available bodily orifice, then extend all of its bony fins, lodging it firmly. Generally, surgery is required to get the icky things out.

Then there is the hagfish....but I'll leave that alone.

[Darlene]

Ok Dave, That really is gross but more than that it's scary!:eek:
Peace, Darlene

[DaveM]

The fish in question is called the Candiru, or "toothpick fish". Swimmers in the Amazon often wear plastic bags as diapers just to keep everything important protected.

[hoops]

davem, that very fish was just recently introduced on Grey's anatomy...they called it the penis fish because it seems to have an attraction to urine. ouch

peace
hoops

[DaveM]

Leave it to Grey's Anatomy....I didn't know they actually did anything medical on that show. Mostly it seems to be about young doctors pairing off and finding unusual places to have sex.

[Dee]

New Zealander's ear problem proves mite noisy nightmare

AUCKLAND (AFP) - A New Zealand man is now sleeping peacefully after years of living with an infestation of mites in his ear finally came to an end.

Paul Balvert's "noisy nightmare" went undiagnosed for two years before it was discovered by a nurse at a specialist clinic.

"For years I had no idea what was wrong," a relieved Balvert told the New Zealand Herald.

"I had been hearing continual bubble and squeak noises in my ears and it was worse at night. Sometimes I would get up in the morning and think I would be lucky if I had got any sleep.

"And there was movement. That was the worst -- the itch. Many times during the day and night I would stick my fingers and cotton buds in my ears to try and relieve the itch. It was unreachable."

His doctor twice flushed his ears with water, but he got no relief.

Balvert eventually went to see a specialist. Nurse Theresa O'Leary said she was amazed to see "very active, tiny, bulbous, semi-transparent mites moving around in a moist layer and white eggs present all over the canal and eardrum.

"There were about a hundred of them. It was a well-stocked breeding ground," she said.

Doctors used suction to remove all visible mites and eggs from Balvert's ear, but hidden eggs soon hatched and his problem resurfaced.

Balvert was eventually cured when microbiologist Chris Mansell recommended soaking the ear in a liquid used for scabies and head lice.

Balvert, who owns a chicken shed-cleaning business, believes the mites entered his ear one day when a chicken feed pan was emptied over his head.

(source (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/070526/oddities/nzealand_health_offbeat))

Have we all forgotten how to clean our ears or something? I know I shouldn't be laughing but ...

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[aabram]

Back to cats again, imagine what they go through every time they get ear mites. I believe it can be a common problem in strays. It took me years to clear up Cherry and Bess's problem back in the 1980s and by the time eventually did, they were on their way to that Cattery in the Sky :(