This is the stomach-churning moment a live tick was found wriggling inside a woman’s ear after she had been complaining about tinnitus.
The fifty-year-old patient, who has not been named, visited the doctor after feeling a strange sensation and hearing a ringing noise in her left ear for a couple of weeks.
She went to the Buddhachinaraj Hospital in Phitsanulok, central Thailand where medics began examining on Wednesday (June 26).
Otolaryngologist Piradee Chanmonthon, 37, peered inside the patient’s ear and saw the bloodsucker burrowed in the ear canal alongside dozens of bite marks.
Camera footage shows how the insect had scurried deep inside the woman’s ear and was wallowing in a shallow pool of liquid, gorging on its human host.
The doctor successfully removed the flea and its droppings using a micro-suction tube. The tick was estimated to be six-millimetres-long.
When asked about her background, the patient said that she has many dogs at home and always leave them outside running in the fields and swimming in the canals all day.
Sometimes she would let her pet pooches sleep in her bed.
The doctor, Piradee, said: ''Luckily, the tick didn’t lay eggs or hadn’t embedded in her ear because that would take longer to removed and might have involved an operation.
''I’d like to warn all animal lovers to regularly shower your pets, especially in this rainy season, before playing and taking them to bed with you.''
