JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WJW) — A Florida man is reportedly healing after a horrific amount of bugs were pulled from his nasal and sinus passages earlier this month.
“Over a couple hours my face just started swelling, my lips swelled, I could hardly talk,” the patient told WTLV in Florida. “My whole face felt like it was on fire.”
The patient went to a nearby hospital for constant nose bleeds and pain.
What the ear nose and throat doctor on call found by looking inside the man’s nose, was like something out of a scary movie:
dozens of live larva feeding on his inside face cavities.
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“They were right up against his skull base, right under the brain,” Dr. David Carlson told WTLV. “Had they gone through that it could have killed him.”