It’s hard to imagine that you could have a 3 inch creature in your
nose for a month and not realise it! Well a backpacker from Scotland who
had been seeing the sights of Vietnam and Cambodia found on returning
home that a leech had found a nice comfortable new home in her nose!
The unfortunate host of the leech was 24 year old Daniela Liverani
from Edinburgh and believed that the nosebleeds from which she was
suffering were down to a crash she had been involved in and thought a
leaking blood vessel was the cause.
However when she took a shower she noticed that the rather dark thing
in her nose was not a blood clot but an animal of some description. .
That was the moment when Miss Liverani realised it was not a blood clot,
but that she was housing a parasite.
Reporting to accident and emergency, the staff there set to work to
try and remove the creature with forceps and tweezers. Now of course it
is not every day, that as a medic you are presented with this sort of
task and although it apparently took about thirty minutes they
eventually presented Miss Liverani with the parasite that she had been
housing for a few weeks.
So did she decide to keep Mr Curly as she called him, well no, she
decided that the best course of action was to boil him and set him to
rest in the Edinburgh City Council waste bin. A fitting end to the hitch
hiker Daniela brought back from her travels.
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