facts verse presents ten horrifying
things found living inside a human body
number ten plants in longness a
Massachusetts resident experienced a
persistent nagging cough ronan speedin
went to the hospital for treatment of
what he thought was a tumor x-rays
revealed that sveden had a two inch long
peep Lant
growing in his lung in 2009 when 28 year
old Russian Artyom zdorkin
described the severe chest pain he was
experiencing doctors feared cancer when
they removed a portion of SCID organs
lung they found a surprise the surgery
revealed a small fir tree two inches
long the tree had sprouted from a seed
the man inhaled in the woods on army
training number nine fish in lungs in
India a 12 year old boy complained to a
doctor about breathing problems
undergoing emergency surgery for his low
blood oxygen level the 45-minute
operation revealed a three and a half
inch long nine centimeter fish in one of
annal barela's lungs the boy admitted
that he and other local kids had been
playing a popular game called swallow
alive fish instead of the fish going
down his esophagus it went down the
windpipe into his left lung
number eight spider in stomach a 21 year
old tourist
tabali ended his visit on a disturbing
note Australian Dylan Thomas awoke on a
Saturday to discover a two-inch red
trail on his torso rising from his
stomach
later in the day the trail had traveled
two or three more inches of his body
when he saw doctors on Sunday they
diagnosed the problem as an insect bite
and gave him a cream for it on Monday
morning it was blistering a
dermatologist was concerned that his
problem was more serious doctors
operated and removed a small spider from
his body
the Bali International Medical Center
medicals
have determined the spider only the size
of a match head had burrowed into Thomas
through a scar from his appendix removal
some perth australia scientists now
believe it might have been a parasitic
mite instead of a spider number seven
maggots in the ear one elderly 92 year
old woman was treated for 57 maggots
living in her ear
the medics believed a fly must have
crawled in and laid eggs which
successfully hatched a man in india was
even more unfortunate when he arrived at
a hospital complaining of ear pain the
doctor found hundreds of maggot larvae
feeding on his flesh if left untreated
they would have fatally burrowed into
his brain
England's Rachelle Harris returned home
from a holiday in Peru soon she was
hearing scratching sounds in her head
pains in her face and excruciating
headaches doctors assumed it was a minor
ear infection until they discovered many
maggots deep inside her ear they were
new world army screwworm fly larvae and
the doctors had difficulty removing them
because as they attempted to reach them
the maggots retreated further into her
head
shooing a hole in her ear canal number 6
brain worm when Roseberry alvarez of
arizona experienced blurred vision and
numbness both she and her doctor
suspected a brain tumor there was no
brain tumor but rather than being good
news what she really had was bad news
during surgery the doctor found that
instead of a brain tumor
Alvarez had a tapeworm burrowed into her
brainstem tapeworms are actually common
hitchhikers in humans but their favorite
habitat is the intestinal tract the
horrifying factor in alvarez's case was
that the only way a tapeworm could get
to her brain was through ingesting human
fecal matter since the grandmother
obviously wasn't involved in some fetish
she had to have eaten something from
by someone's unwashed hands number five
bugs in scalp in 2007 Aaron Dallas of
Colorado had incredibly itchy scalp
which he treated for weeks with ointment
SAVs and special shampoos with no relief
as more time passed he says he could
feel his scalp moving and hear something
then he began to experience debilitating
pain doctors discovered that botfly
larvae had been implanted in his scalp
probably by a mosquito on a trip he had
taken to Belize that year undergoing
surgery doctors cleaned out an open pit
on Dallas's scalp that was full of bugs
each of them was approximately half the
size of a penny number four
giant hairball in Kyrgyzstan doctors
were consulted because severely
malnourished ayperi Alex Eva couldn't
keep down any food or drink when they
operated on the 18 year old they were
horrified to discover a giant 10-pound
hairball in her stomach
my puri was suffering from Treecko
fascia a compulsive disorder causing a
person to eat their own and other
strands of hair eventually the
accumulated hairball that forms develops
a tail which gets into the intestine
known as Rapunzel syndrome
number three magnets small children
swallow inappropriate things such was
the case with eight-year-old Hayley of
Indiana who ate something that looked
like candy she was admitted to the
hospital suffering from mysterious
stomach pains x-rays revealed the girl
had swallowed over 30 magnets and small
chunks of metal the magnets still
behaved like magnets locking together
regardless of whether they were in the
same internal organ or not doctors say
Hayley was lucky to have survived number
two
your twin sanju Bhagat's of india was
ridiculed as a child for his abnormally
big abdomen in fact he had looked
pregnant his entire life he was taken to
the hospital one night for severe pain
and shortness of breath as doctors
operated to remove what they thought was
a tumor they discovered Bhagat's
parasitic twin instead the twin had been
there since they were in the uterus
together living parasitically off of him
only partly formed the twin had
developed hands feet genitalia and hair
termed fetus in fetu there have been
less than 90 cases recorded in medical
history number one
cutlery when Margaret Dallman of the
Netherlands went to a hospital in
crippling pain from her stomach her
x-rays revealed what looked like a large
squid operating on the 52 year-old woman
doctors discovered over 78 forks and
spoons she had swallowed each of them
one at a time while we may be confused
about how and why someone does this
there is actually a name for the
mysterious compulsion to eat items that
are not food
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