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One woman’s tick problem turned out to be weirder—and bigger—than usual. In an article published this month, the woman’s doctors describe how a tick stuck in her ear causing her to become profoundly deaf.
Doctors at the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan, Nepal, detailed a case of a deadly arachnid, which affected a 21-year-old woman. In addition to hearing loss in her tick-infested right ear, the woman experienced ear pain. sudden, trembling, and vomiting. Fortunately, after the tick was removed from its hiding place, it recovered completely.
Ticks are a problem and problem that is increasing in many countries of the world US plus. But in most cases, their danger comes from various diseases that can be transmitted to us through their blood-sucking (they said, only female ticks feed on blood). Less common, but less known, is the tick that causes trouble by settling in our ears.
According to reports, the woman went to the doctors a week after she started experiencing severe pain in her right ear. Two days before the doctor’s appointment, his ear began to vibrate, his ear began to vibrate. Doctors examined him and found he had “profound to profound” hearing loss in his right ear and it didn’t take long to find the cause: inflammation of the inner ear caused by a dead but dormant tick.
Although having a small animal in his ear can be dangerous, being a tick didn’t help him much. Doctors believe that the swelling was caused by a tick that bit into the ear (perhaps the ear) and released poison from its saliva that entered the middle ear. It is possible that the bite only tore the ear, where it is possible that by the time the doctors examined the woman, she may have recovered, because they found that her mouth was normal.
Fortunately, using suction and pressure, the doctors “extricated and removed” the eight-legged rider without complications. The woman was given steroids, mild painkillers, and antibiotics to reduce her symptoms and prevent infection. And at the next visit after one month, his ear pain and hearing disappeared.
“Taking good care of the patient’s condition, indicated by the elimination of all symptoms and the restoration of hearing, emphasizes the effectiveness of careful tick removal,” wrote the doctors in their report; printed this month in Journal of Medical Case Reports.
Insects and arachnids (ticks and spiders) going out of our ears is something that happens from time to time. But even what you heard from urban legends rampant on the playground, these creepy crawlies aren’t looking to lay eggs inside or chew on our brains – there aren’t any creatures out there deliberately trying to call our ears home. All that said, I’m going to be very skeptical about the next trip I take through tick country.
