DOCTORS in northern Thailand have removed almost three dozen fly maggots from a woman's nose, where they were eating their way towards her brain, a report said.

The 38-year-old pig farmer from the northwestern city of Chiang Mai is believed to be the first reported case in Thailand of maggots nesting in a human's nose, Tawee Thanuparprangsan of Nakhon Ping hospital told The Nation newspaper.
The 38-year-old woman visited the doctor in late March, complaining of excruciating pain in her left cheek.

"I checked her nasal cavity and found a lot of fly maggots there," Tawee told the paper.

The maggots had eaten so much of her nasal tissue that some of her cartilage was exposed, Tawee added.

He anesthetized the woman and during an operation removed 34 maggots from inside her nose.

"She then needed antibiotics to treat the bacterial infection for five straight days before being allowed to return home," Tawee told the paper.

As a pig farmer, the woman was exposed to many flies every day.

"Probably while she was sleeping, a fly went up her nose and laid its eggs, which then hatched into larvae," Tawee said.

If the infected area had spread to her brain, she could have died, Tawee added.

Last week, the paper reported that an 84-year-old man on the southern resort isle of Phuket had 50 maggots removed from his ear, after he went to a hospital complaining of an itch.

He had scratched his ears so hard that they started bleeding, and doctors said that flies apparently had gotten inside and laid eggs.

Last week, the same hospital removed an eight-centimetre-long leech from throat of a 19-year-old man who had complained of a constant sore throat.
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That had to hurt like a b****! You would think after so long she would have the common sense to know it was a huge problem.

God thats disgusting.

Why didn't she just blow her nose? Aye chihuahua...I always thought maggots fed on dead tissue.

A maggot takeover… run to the hills…

(Looks on map)

You’re okay for a while, Thailand’s miles away.

(Sits back to finish watching American Idol and eating a TV dinner)

Part of her nose probably had dead tissue to begin with.

Man, that's nasty. How can you let yourself get into that kind of a predicament?

I wonder if she could smell them

I dunno, but like Lilaburrows said, you gotta wonder how long those things manifested themselves in her nose before she figured out something wasn't right.

Ewwwwwwwww !! maybe she was already brain dead ??

That's nasty.

Anyway...how would a leech get into a guy's throat?

Well... I have eaten a leech before (a bet) but swimming is probably the most likely cause.

I was wondering the same thing.

I clicked on the link, but I couldn't find that story.

Yeah, I guess swimming is the best bet, but you'd think that someone would notice an 8 cm leech slide down into their throat... O.o Oh, whatever.

didnt she ever pick her nose?

Hahaha probably. Maybe she picked it so much it caused her flesh to rot, and thats how the maggots got there.

haha this story reminds me of another where a dude had maggots in his anus XP

THis is just NASTY!

And she never felt them crawling or eating their way through her nose??? How dense do you have to be?

The flys may have laid the eggs, which immedietly went into one of her sinuses. Thats probably why she said "my cheek hurts."

Wow, I'm keeping something over my nose for now on when i sleep.....

What ever it is, make sure it's not rotten flesh!!!

Whoa thats harsh!
This story just plain grosses me out.