Teh One Who Knocks
08-09-2012, 11:55 AM
The Short List
http://i.imgur.com/eBh8T.jpg
We've always dismissed the "fact" that in your lifetime you'll, apparently, eat up to eight spiders while you sleep.
But while we've no evidence to disprove the arachnid-munching theory, there is some troubling news in from China. Incy Wincy likes to nap in human ears.
A spider was found by doctors at China's Changsha Central Hospital, in the ear of a woman who had been complaining of 'itching' in the left side of her head.
Doctors then had to extract the creature, but had to be very careful so as to make sure it didn't burrow or even bite the woman. Eventually they settled on filling the poor old girl's ear with saline fluid to coax it out. Thankfully, it worked.
It later emerged the spider had probably been living in her ear canal for up to five days and may have crawled in while she slept in her home during renovations.
And for those of you thinking it was just a little money spider, it wasn't. Take a gander at the photo. Happy Thursday everyone.
http://i.imgur.com/eBh8T.jpg
We've always dismissed the "fact" that in your lifetime you'll, apparently, eat up to eight spiders while you sleep.
But while we've no evidence to disprove the arachnid-munching theory, there is some troubling news in from China. Incy Wincy likes to nap in human ears.
A spider was found by doctors at China's Changsha Central Hospital, in the ear of a woman who had been complaining of 'itching' in the left side of her head.
Doctors then had to extract the creature, but had to be very careful so as to make sure it didn't burrow or even bite the woman. Eventually they settled on filling the poor old girl's ear with saline fluid to coax it out. Thankfully, it worked.
It later emerged the spider had probably been living in her ear canal for up to five days and may have crawled in while she slept in her home during renovations.
And for those of you thinking it was just a little money spider, it wasn't. Take a gander at the photo. Happy Thursday everyone.