When Maggots Attack!

A seventy year old woman of Indian origin when initially complained of nose bleeding, no one paid serious regard to it. It was only when the bleeding persisted for five days and even after visiting two hospitals that failed to detect the reason behind it, her kin took her to a civic-run hospital when the true gory picture emerged. Finally the doctors there were successful at pin-pointing the true cause – she had maggot infestation in her nose.

The doctors could now decipher the reason behind how the lady got maggots in her nose. The women explained her side of the story explicating that a housefly had entered her nose a day prior to the nose bleeding commencing. She visited two hospitals where she was advised to have some tablets and nose drops, but regrettably none of the doctors could detect that the larvae of the housefly were the core cause of the problem.

The woman has been insistent regarding the bleeding was because of the fly, though her claims went unheeded, with others thinking that she was over-hyping the situation. Her bleeding continued until the time she was treated.

On gaining entry in the nose, the fly laid its eggs inside. The doctors managed to remove nearly forty maggots from the woman’s nose. The worms had commenced foraging on her flesh that had lead to bleeding, immense pain and discomfort. The doctors cleared the wound and the woman was declared in fine condition if there were no chances of further infection.

The fly is known to lay eggs in clammy, damp locations. The eggs then fertilize in a period of eight to twenty hours evolving into maggots. Instantaneously, these maggots commence scavenging on the location where the eggs were formerly laid down. Usually, maggots plague an open injury.

In yet another case cited earlier during the year, the doctors hailing from a state-run hospital were appalled by the sight of a patient who had been admitted with a wide open hole that was much alike the size of a tennis ball found in his head that was teeming with maggots. The worms had gnawed their way through the skin of the head, the muscles beneath and had managed to make their course up into the skull. The doctors removed more than four hundred maggots from the skull cavity.

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