INCREDIBLE! Cockroach pulled out of woman’s skull alive after creeping up her nostril
A cringe-worthy video of a cockroach lodging inside a woman’s skull has surfaced.
The cockroach had crawled up the woman’s nostril while she slept, The Sun UK reports.
The 42-year-old victim identified as Selvi said she was awoken in the middle of the night after she felt a “crawling sensation” in her right nostril.
She immediately became uncomfortable with what she described as a “burning” feeling in her head before reporting at the nearest clinic on Tuesday.
Surprisingly, nothing was initially found. The next day, she went to state-run Stanley Medical College Hospital in Chennai, where doctors found the live roach.
“My immediate reaction after feeling that crawling sensation in the right nostril was to brush it off in half sleep,” the Indian woman said.
“But before I could do anything, it went inside. I could not explain the feeling but I was sure it was some insect. There was a tingling and crawling sensation. Whenever it moved, it gave me a burning sensation in my eyes.
“I spent the entire night in discomfort, sitting up and waiting for dawn to go to Stanley hospital after getting the reference of a doctor from my employer,” she added.
Doctors eventually succeeded in pulling the cockroach out of Selvi’s nose – alive. It reportedly took them 45minutes to get it out with the help of clamps and a sucker.
Doctors said the insect would have died if Selvi had ignored the scratchy sensation, and it would have caused an infection close to her brain.
“This is the first such case I have seen in my three decades of practice,” a doctor at the hospital said.
“It was sitting in the skull base, between the two eyes, close to the brain. If left inside, it would have died before long and the patient would have developed infection which would have spread to the brain.
“It was difficult to remove it because of the place it was sitting in.
“I had to drag it to a place from where I could pull it out. It was finally removed after 45 minutes,” Dr M N Shankar added.
