Live Cockroach Removed From Australian Man’s Ear By Doctors

An Australian has received medical treatment to
remove a large cockroach that had burrowed into his
ear.
Local media reported that the 2cm pest caused
agonising pain for Hendrik Helmer, and defied his
efforts to suck it out with a vacuum cleaner.
It was finally killed by doctors at a hospital in the
northern city of Darwin and removed using forceps.
"They said they had never pulled an insect this large
out of someone's ear," he told ABC News.
Mr Helmer awoke on Wednesday morning to a sharp
pain in his right ear.
At first he thought a poisonous spider had made its
way into his ear canal.
When the pain intensified Mr Helmer tried to remove
the unwelcome guest with a vacuum cleaner and by
squirting water into his ear.
"Whatever was in my ear didn't like it at all," he said.
As the pain become more excruciating, his flatmate
rushed him to hospital where a doctor tried putting
oil down the ear canal.
But that only made the cockroach crawl in deeper,
before it eventually began to die.
"Near the 10 minute mark… somewhere about there,
he started to stop burrowing but he was still in the
throes of death twitching," Mr Helmer said.
It was then that the doctor was able to put forceps
into his ear and and pull out the cockroach.
"She [the doctor] said, 'You know how I said a little
cockroach, that may have been an underestimate',"
he said.
Mr Helmer told ABC he was not suffering any major
discomfort and would not be taking any additional
precautions before going to sleep.
But he said his friends were strongly advising him to
go to bed with headphones on.
[Reported by BBC World]

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