Dr
Vikram Yadav, who treated the man and later uploaded the video to
Youtube, explained the houseflies invaded the man’s ear while he was
sleeping.
After laying their larvae in his ear, they hatched into hundreds of maggots, which fed off his flesh.
Each about one centimetre long, they can be seen squirming as the doctor removes them individually with tweezers.
He then adds them to a plastic tube, where they are seen wriggling.
The infestation is known as aural myasis - a common condition in the tropics and subtropics.
It is usually seen in children younger than 10 years of age or in debilitated individuals.
The infestation was triggered by a
housefly laying its eggs in the man's ear as he slept. Dr Vikram Yadav
is pictured removing several maggots in one go
The eggs then hatched into hundreds of
maggots, pictured wiggling his ear canal. Left untreated, they could
have burrowed into the man's brain and killed him
The maggots are pictured trying to
crawl out of the man's ear. The condition, aural myiasis, is treated by
suffocating the maggots, applying anti-parasitic drugs and by manually
removing them
Due to international travel, there have also been cases in Europe and North America.
People with aural myasis might experience buzzing in their ear and notice smelly discharge, and it can cause deafness.
Infestations of the nose and ears are considered dangerous because of the possibility the maggots could penetrate into brain.
The fatality rate is eight per cent in such cases, according to one paper by Turkish academics on the subject.
As
part of the video, Dr Yadav claims the best way to remove the maggots
is ‘to make them suffocate so they come to the surface.’
He adds that he uses the anti-parasitic medicine ivermectin so new eggs don’t hatch, and picks the maggots out manually.
He
continues: ‘If anybody sleeps, a child, an old person, and you see any
houseflies there, put some cloth on their face so they don’t enter into
the orifices and lay their eggs.
‘Prevention is better.’
The maggots, which are the larvae of houseflies, squirm as he removes them with tweezers
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