Try not to remember this next time you have an itchy ear ....

[jefmcg]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_xsbaTrem4

 

[Oldbloke]

Well I really enjoyed lunch until I saw that...

 

[Hill Wimp]

 

[luckyfox]

Urghhhhhhhh, kill it with fire before it lays eggs

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If that is the larvae, is that the true meaning of 'Having a flea in your ear'?

Urghhhhhhhh, kill it with fire before it lays eggs

Thank goodness you aren't a Doctor, burning the inside of someone's head wouldn't be too bright!!

To be honest, I would like to get it out live so I could take a look at it, I mean, what is it exactly?

 

[Mandragora]

What you do in these situations is drown it in alcohol and flush it out. I know these things, following a very dramatic performance on the 'camping a la ferme' last summer, when the tiniest insect known to man chose to fly into the eardrum of the most exciteable and shoutiest Frenchman for miles around. A considerable amount of shouting, flapping, and torch-related liveliness was followed up by the arrival of paramedics and flashing blue lights, who initially tried hard to hide their laughter before flooding his eardrum with medicinal alcohol. Ever since then, my husband's insisted that we keep an emergency supply of gin and vodka to hand at all times. That's the reason he gives, and he's sticking to it.


You don't get evening performances like THAT in the Hilton hotel now, do you??

 

[jefmcg]

It's a drosophila (hey, I happen to know the scientific word for fruit fly, I'm going to use it, aren't I?) larva. So no immediate risk of eggs.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1212769

(apparently cockroaches in the ear are drowned in oil and then removed with tweezers. And if you have a cockroach in your ear, you know it. Yup, I've know someone who woke up to a cockroach in her ear. Another reason never to live in Sydney)

 

[summerdays]

I couldn't even bring myself to watch the video....

 

[TheDoctor]

*hides*
That's utterly hideous.
*shudders*

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Aw what a cute wee beastie

 

[screenman]

Not even going to watch it, being a swimmer I imagine all sorts of things wobbling about in my ears.

 

[classic33]

Well I really enjoyed lunch until I saw that...

Disbelief stop you?