A man in China had a live cockroach pulled out from deep inside his ear after it got stuck there for six hours.
Doctor had to break the moving insect into small pieces before removing it from the man’s ear canal last Friday.
The patient, 52, claimed the bug crawled into him while he was sleeping.
A live cockroach was found inside Mr Li’s ear after staying deep inside the canal for six hours (left). A specialist surgeon in China had to break the cockroach into pieces to remove it (right)
The patient from China Guangdong Province, known as Mr Li, told an ear, nose and throat doctor at Pingshan Hospital in Shenzhen that he felt discomfort in his ear at around 3am in on June 15, reported Shenzhen News.
However, Mr Li did not go to the hospital until he felt sharp pain when he woke up six hours later.
The doctor found a live cockroach burrowing deep in Mr Li’s ear under an otoscope scan.
The doctor decided to cut the live cockroach into small pieces before removing it from Mr Li’s ear canal.
‘It’s still alive, still moving,’ the female doctor can be heard saying in a video after the bug was extracted from the patient.
The doctor then disinfected Mr Li’s ear canal with alcohol in case the cockroach had managed to lay eggs inside.
‘It’s still alive, still moving,’ the doctor can be heard saying after the bug was pulled out
Last month, a woman from Florida, US, had a cockroach stuck in her ear for more than a week after the insect crawled in while she was asleep.
Professor Coby Schal, from North Carolina State University, who studies insects, previously told the National Geographic: ‘It’s actually not an uncommon phenomenon to have a cockroach in the ear.
‘Roaches are searching for food everywhere. And earwax might be appealing to them.’