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Doctors Remove Live Cockroach From a Woman’s Skull

Everyone’s heard the old wives tale- you swallow up to 5 spiders a year while you’re sleeping.

While this is blatantly false, and honestly makes no sense when you think about it- I mean would you willingly crawl into the mouth of a sleeping giant?- other insects aren’t as cautious.

Insects like the cockroach, that most hated by mankind of all insectdom.

Today we’re taking a look at the woman with a cockroach living in her head.

Cockroaches are insidious little creatures.

They plague our homes and resist our best attempts to exterminate them.

Yet no matter how bad the infestation, no one ever seriously thinks that they would be bold enough to make the move inside the human body.

But that’s exactly what happened in the city of Nunkambakkam, India, just this November.

One night a 42- year old woman identified known as Selvi insect crawling around her nostril as she slept.

Brushing the insect away, she was horrified to discover that it had bolted straight up her nose! Feeling it crawling around inside her nostril, Selvi said that the small cockroach gave her a burning sensation in her eyes as it crawled around.

Unable to sleep- and who could blame her?- she sat up and waited for dawn so she could go to a nearby clinic.

At the clinic the doctors quickly referred her to a nearby government hospital, where she had a nasal endoscopy performed to find the intrusive cockroach.

Still alive, the nose spelunking insect had lodged itself in the skull between Selvi’s eyes.

“This is the first such case I have seen in my three decades of practice”, remarked Dr.M N Shankar.

The doctors would go on to successfully remove the cockroach, and comment that they were glad Selvi had not waited to see them as if the cockroach had died she would have developed an infection which could have spread to the brain.

Those doctors probably shouldn’t have worried about Selvi taking her time to see them, as we’re pretty sure nobody would hesitate to immediately head to the hospital if a cockroach ran up their nose.

Selvi’s incident was a freak accident as cockroaches don’t typically decide to go exploring inside the human body.

Other insects however aren’t so careful, or deliberately seek out other creatures to inhabit or lay their eggs in.

If you’ve got the stomach for it, stay tuned as we explore more incidents of creepy crawleys ending up inside people.

In July of 2013, for-year-old Paul Franklin was on vacation with his family when he tripped and skinned his knee at the beach.

Kids are notorious for getting bumps and scrapes, so his family cleaned him up, bandaged him, and didn’t think much of it.

A few weeks later, the knee became infected and the family took Paul to the hospital.

After a quick inspection, doctors believed the cause to be nothing more than a staph infection and treated it with antibiotics.

The infection did indeed abate,but a black bump just under the skin continued to grow.

On a hunch, Paul’s mom decided to squeeze the bump and out popped a living sea snail! Turns out that when Paul had scratched up his knee, he must have inadvertently picked up a fertilized sea snail egg which got stuck in his flesh.

Paul took the tiny invader in stride though and decided to keep it, calling it Turbo after the star of an animated film.

Earlier we mocked the old wive’s tale of a spider climbing into your mouth only to be swallowed, yet our next incident makes us feel that perhaps we were a bit hasty in our disbelief.

Back in 2014 an Australian man named Dylan Maxwell went on holiday to the Indonesian island of Bali.

Enjoying the tropical beaches and lush jungles, Dylan felt what he thought was an insect bite at the base of a small appendix scar on his navel.

Visiting a local doctor he was prescribed an antihistamine for insect bite and discharged.

Upon returning home however a red scar-like trail started developing from his navel all the way up his chest, and an alarmed Dylan visited a hospital to be checked out.

Doctors were shocked to discover that a small tropical spider had actually crawled inside of Dylan and made its way up his body, staying alive for three whole days! Dylan’s spider tenant was successfully removed, and the worst Dylan has to endure now is his friends calling him Spider man.

Bot flies are horrible little creatures who lay their eggs on the exterior of other living creatures- usually mosquitoes or flies.

Upon hatching, the larvae burrow into the host and start to feed, emerging later to pupate into mature adult bot flies.

Sometimes a female bot fly will choose a human as a host, and usually the burrowed larva is easily removed by simply covering the burrow hole with anointment or other substance that blocks the larva from breathing Usually.

The US Air Force and other military branches routinely engage in humanitarian aid work, dispatching military doctors and other medical personnel to impoverished areas around the world.

Back in the year 2000, a 5 year old boy reported to an Air Force medical camp with a swollen eye and complaining of not being able to see out of it.

When the military doctors examined his eye, they were horrified to discover a nearly fully grown bot fly larva attached directly to his eyeball.

Under general anesthesia, the doctors made a small incision into the eyeball and removed a whopping 19 millimeter bot fly larva.

The boy would go on to make a full recovery, and after learning of this incident flies may have trumped cockroaches as our own personal most hated insect in the world. Our original story features a woman with a cockroach who could have infected her brain, but our next one shows what happens when insects manage to actually get inside the brain itself.

If you have the stomach for it, keep on reading, and if not we recommend you stop here. Ok, we warned you.

Back in October of 2002 a 70 year old man in the US was involved in a minor car accident.

When police arrived they were shocked at the man’s condition.

Despite not having suffered any injuries in the accident, the upper portion of the man’s skull and large amounts of his brain were visible, and the shocked officers immediately contacted paramedics.

When taken to the hospital the man was found to be suffering from an unusual form of cancer which had eaten away at a portion of his skull and scalp,but because it did not cause him any pain he had never sought treatment.

The exposed brain was discovered to be infested with live maggots, which had infested the man for an unknown amount of time.

Doctors removed the maggots by suction and with a mild bleach solution, though the man would go on to die from his untreated cancer three months later.

You might be wondering how the man could possibly be alive after having an exposed brain infested with live maggots, but turns out that the maggots were probably what was keeping him alive.

As the cancer ate away at the man’s skull and scalp, the maggots- which only eat decaying flesh and leave healthy flesh alone-would have consumed any infected flesh that might have caused a serious and deadly infection.

We have no idea how this man chose to go around his day with an exposed brain and live maggots living on it, but at least the maggots he was giving a home to were keeping his gaping wound clean and healthy.

In fact, doctors in developed nations have started using maggots to treat infected wounds, and the treatments have been found to be far more effective than anything used prior.

So next time you go to the doctor with a bad cut, if it gets infected you might just go home patched up with a few maggots wriggling around inside you and keeping you healthy! By the way, if you have the stomach for it go ahead and google this last story, as there are photos- but be warned, you might not want to eat lunch today if you do.

We sincerely hope you can sleep tonight without feeling an itching, crawling sensation all over your body- is it just scratchy sheets,or is some insect making its way along your skin, just looking for a chance to make you its new home? Is that random itch by your ear just a stray hair, or is a creepy crawly trying to get inside your ear and to your brain? Is that bump on your stomach just another bug bite, or is something burrowing deeper inside you, looking to lay its eggs in your flesh?

Thanks for reading till the end, and as always, don’t forget to like, share and react.

See you next time.

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The Most Important Events In The History of the Earth

The Earth- a giant hunk of rock and water that’s home to the only known life in the universe.

It’s so vast and old that it seems unchanging, yet it has in fact experienced cataclysmic upheavals and routine face lifts over the course of its 4.5 billion year lifespan.

Just like a human being, the earth ages, and as it does it goes through major changes.

Today we’re taking a look at the most important events in the Earth’s history.

4.5 billion years ago the Earth and most of the solar system was nothing more than a ring of proto planetary dust circling the sun.

However over time gravity gradually drew individual particles of dust together, creating ever larger clumps.

Eventually the clumps grew to the size of boulders, then to the size of mountains, and over many millions of years the Earth was formed.

Yet this newborn earth was nothing like what you see today, with little if any water and a surface that was perpetually molten.

Over millions more years the outer layer cooled however to form a crust, and planetary impacts of comets and asteroids brought all the water that you see today to the Earth from space.

Not long after the Earth’s creation it’s thought that gravity put it on a collision course with another nascent planet roughly the sizeof Mars.

This planet, named Theia, slammed into the Earth with 100 million times more energy than the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, and hurled vaporized chunks of both bodies out into space.

Gravity eventually bound the ejecta together and created our Moon.

This impact gave our planet the tilt it has today, which in turn gives us our four seasons, and helped stabilize its spin- two things which scientists believe were critical for the evolution of advanced life.

Sometime between 4 and 3.5 billion years ago the first organisms evolved on earth.

Scientists aren’t exactly sure on when this occurred as the oldest confirmed fossils of single-celled microorganisms are 3.5 billion years old, but there could be undiscovered older fossils waiting to be dug up.

What scientists do know is that life evolved almost as soon as it possibly could, immediately after the heavy bombardment stage of our earth’s evolution when it was being periodically slammed by huge asteroids and comets.

This gives many scientists hope that life is actually abundant in the universe, and not just here on Earth.

It’s believed that the first life on earth used chemical reactions to power itself, but it wasn’t long after it first appeared- perhaps as short as just 100 million years- that microorganisms evolved to use sunlight for energy.

By capturing rays of sunshine these micro organisms were able to make sugars from simple molecules, a vastly more efficient means of providing energy than the chemical reactions employed by their ancestors.

Photosynthesis, and the unlocking of exponentially greater energy potential in organisms, may have been the key to life’s diversity.

About 3.5 to 3.2 billion years ago the first continents began to form and plate tectonics began in earnest.

Before this it’s thought that giant plumes of very hot magma shot new material straight to the surface and began to build landmasses,but as heat-generating radioactive elements began to run low in the Earth’s interior,the mantle began to cool and less and less of these ‘super plumes’ were created.

This allowed convection cells to become stable in the mantle and start driving the movements of huge continental plates.

If you like breathing oxygen- and we suspect most of you do- then you should be grateful to tiny little bacteria that existed 2.4 billion years ago.

For half of the Earth’s life there was very little oxygen in the atmosphere, but then suddenly some bacteria evolved to use photosynthesis is to make sugar from carbon dioxide and water, much the same way as plants today.

This was a huge leap forward in evolution,as before then photosynthesizing microbes did not release oxygen as a waste product.

Known as the Great Oxidation Event, this turning point in earth’s history is also known as The Great Oxygen Catastrophe, because the introduction of this volatile gas was toxic to most pre-existing life.

These tiny oxygen producing microbes would go on to kill almost all life on earth as a consequence.

Around 1.2 billion years ago life took another significant leap forward when two microbes got together, put on some slow jazz music, dimmed the lights, and invented sex.

Scientists don’t know why organisms simply stopped dividing in two to reproduce, but they discovered fossils of red algae which are thought to be the first organisms to develop specialized sex cells- in their case, spores-indicate the change was relatively sudden.

Shortly after the invention of sex, life took its most significant leap forward, developing the first multi cellular organisms about 1 billion years ago.

Up until then life had consisted solely of single-celled organisms living individually or in colonies, but now cells were working together to form complex life and creating things like mouths, limbs, and sensory organs.

Plants would beat animals to the punch though,and secure a foothold in this brave new world first.

Another mystery of science, the Cambrian explosion took place 535 million years ago and gave us almost every group of modern animals alive today.

Animals exploded in variety, sizes, and shapes,and filled every available niche both on the seafloor and in the water column.

This explosion of animal life also saw the evolution of the first predators, and launched the predator/prey arms race of weapons and defenses that persists to this day.

Towards the end of the Cambrian Explosion,about 465 million years ago, plants began to venture onto the land.

Descendants of green algae, plants quickly diversified into the descendants of today’s modern plant life.

Animals also made the trek to land, but only briefly- most likely to lay eggs somewhere without predators.

However these brief forays and the expansion of plant life on land led animals to begin to evolve to exist on land.

These first plant eaters were quickly followed by their predators.

About 460 to 430 million years ago though things took a turn for the worse for Earth’s budding animal and plant life.

Though life had exploded during the Ordovician period, towards the end the planet began to cool and ice sheets spread out from the poles.

85% of all marine species were wiped out,and fish became much more common as a result.

Evolving from newt-like amphibians, the first reptiles appeared about 320 million years ago in the middle of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age.

Unlike their amphibian ancestors though reptiles had tough, scaly skin and laid eggs with hard shells.

These evolutionary adaptations allowed them to leave their amphibious lifestyle behind and begin the colonization of the earth, eventually leading to the age of the dinosaurs.

Before dinosaurs could arrive on the scene though, the earth threw a particularly violent temper tantrum lasting millions of years and exploded with volcanic activity.

Toxic gases in the atmosphere led to the acidification of the oceans, killing up to 96% of all marine species and almost all land animals as well.

Despite being nearly wiped out- again- life would bounce back, and in the aftermath of what is now known as The Great Dying, the first dinosaurs evolved.

As dinosaurs began to rule the earth 220 million years ago, a small group of them took a different evolutionary path.

Descending from small reptiles called cynodonts with faces like dogs and possibly even having fur or whiskers, the first mammals were the size of a shrew and were almost certainly only active at night so they could avoid beingeasy meals for their dinosaur overlords.

Their nocturnal lifestyle may also have led to their warm-blooded-ness, and the ability to keep their body temperature constant regardless of the environmental temperature- a key adaptation for surviving a future catastrophe.

Sixty five million years ago a giant asteroid larger than Mount Everest smashed into modern-day Mexico.

The asteroid was so huge that just as the tip was touching the surface of the earth, its uppermost edge was still high up in the atmosphere.

The initial explosion devastated a large area of the earth and created tsunamis that wiped out coastal areas.

As debris from the explosion was hurled up into space and re-entered the atmosphere on the other side of the earth, it set off huge forest fires around the world.

Dust thrown into the upper atmosphere would block out sunlight and bring about a miniature and sudden ice age that would be the fifth and last mass extinction on our planet.

You probably didn’t know, but the first mammals were actually egg layers just like their reptile brethren.

In the aftermath of the global extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs though many mammals began to nourish their young inside their womb, which was safer than laying eggs in a cold, hostile world.

About 60 to 55 million years ago, some of these early mammals evolved into the very first primates, who would eventually give rise to modern apes, monkeys, and of course humans.

The first true apes appeared in Africa about 25 million years ago, then suddenly about 13 to 7 million years ago the ape family split into the ancestors of modern humans and the ancestors of modern apes.

The oldest known hominid was Sahelanthropustchadensis, and lived about 7 million years ago.

Hominids proved to be so successful that their evolution continued down through the ages until finally, 200,000 years ago we appeared on the scene, irrevocably changing the earth forever.

Our earth has a long and storied history of death, rebirth, and constant change.

It might seem static and unchanging to us with our short life spans, but we’ve only existed for a blink of an eye in terms of planetary history, and the processes that shape our world and the species within it are constant and incessant, working every single day to create a new future.

For the first time in the earth’s history though what that future may look like is largely dependent on one of its own species, and as we face the threats of global warming and ever-more destructive wars, we will be largely responsible for our own survival or extinction in a way no other species has ever been.

If you could have been alive to see any event in Earth’s history, which would it be? What will the future of the Earth look like? Let us know in the comments below. As always, like and share this post

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Can Smoking A Scorpion Get You High?

Did you know that some people smoke scorpions? Not only that, but some people let themselves be stung on purpose because it gets them high. But just a little perspective here before we get into the science. Being stung by an Arizona bark scorpion, just one of more than a thousand species, reportedly feels like getting burnt with a cigarette — and then driving a nail into the wound. So what exactly is in scorpion venom that makes people get high? And can that stuff be put to less frivolous use? The actual drug usage of scorpions is mainly happening in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. There aren’t any statistics on how prevalent it is, but narcotics control officers have reported that it’s not rare. Reportedly, each sting costs somewhere between 75 and 200 rupees, or between $1 and $3 US dollars. Basically, after payment, you hold a scorpion in your hand, your dealer hits it gently with a stick, and it gets mad and stings you. But if someone’s going to smoke a scorpion,that takes a little more doing. First they’ve got to dry a dead scorpion in sunlight or burn it alive on a coal stove. Some users inhale the smoke coming off the fire. But the burnt tail is where the venom’sat. Users mix that with some hashish and tobacco and then smoke it like a cigarette, or possibly in a small pipe. Users report that its effects are more powerful than heroin. They say that for the first six hours it’s very painful as your body adjusts to the toxins, but then it eases into a floating euphoria where you’re still alert. Different species of scorpions are said to have different psychoactive properties. One might keep you awake, while another may cause hallucinations — or give you severe headaches. The high is said to last anywhere from 10 hours to 3 days. But keep in mind that scorpion venom is very dangerous. 25 scorpion species are known to have venom that’s fatal to human beings. Smoking venom from the ones that won’t kill you can still cause short and long term memory loss, sleeping and appetite disorders, and a constant state of delusion. This is because scorpion venom is a complex cocktail of toxic proteins and peptides that are designed to target parts of their prey’s bodies and shut them down. Some paralyze messages between the nervous system and the muscles. Others corrode molecules, causing cell tissue to break apart. Others clot blood — or prevent it from clotting. But these same chemical properties are why scorpion venom is also being used and researched for medical treatments. Right now, drugs based on these toxins have yet to be approved, but they could be a big part of the future of pharmacology. Chinese medicine has made use of scorpion venom to treat pain for centuries. Development of painkillers based on scorpion venom could potentially provide relief outside of more addictive, opioid-based medicines like oxycodone. Even brain cancer treatments are being developed from scorpion venom. Specifically they fight high-grade gliomas, a form of brain cancer so aggressive that only 8% of its patients survive two years past diagnosis. But the venom from the yellow Israeli scorpion,aka the death stalker, may help. A protein in the venom selectively attaches to glioma cells. Synthesized versions of these venom proteins can carry therapy particles straight to the cancer to kill it, slow its spread, or “light it up” with an infrared dye to help surgeons remove it all. So, scorpion venom’s not all bad, is it? At least under the right circumstances. But I’ve got to ask, would you let someone use scorpion venom on you to treat an illness? Let us know in the comments. As usual please like and share this with your friends and family. Source: Youtube from WordPress https://viralberry.com/animals/can-smoking-a-scorpion-get-you-high/

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