Yangzhou, SuBei People's Hospital, ENT Department, associate chief physician Chang Lingmei reported yesterday that on the night of the 15th, she actually tweezed a 5 cm long living centipede from an adult ear. It was the first time in her medical career that she encountered such a strange event.
At 9pm on the 15th, Dr. Chang was on duty at the hospital's ENT department when a female patient entered, holding her ear in pain. The patient said that at around 8:30pm, while she was watching TV at home, she suddenly felt something moving inside her ear, and it hurt, so she quickly came to the hospital for treatment. Dr. Chang took a look and saw that there was indeed a bug wriggling in the patient's ear. Upon closer inspection, it seemed to be a centipede. After carefully extracting it, she found that it was truly a centipede, 5 cm long and still alive. When the patient saw the extracted centipede, she was so scared that she started shaking.
After examination, Dr. Chang found that the patient's eardrum was not damaged. Upon further inquiry about the cause, the patient lived on the seventh floor of a residential building in the city area, not an old bungalow, so it was unclear where the centipede came from. Dr. Chang and the patient analyzed that the centipede might have been in the patient's home originally, falling from the wall or ceiling onto the patient's hair, then crawling into the ear. Because the patient had curly hair that went past her ears, it was also possible that the centipede was already in the patient's hair before entering the house, then slowly crawled into the ear and caused trouble. (Hai Rong, Chen Yong)