JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WJW) — A Florida man is reportedly healing after a horrific amount of bugs were pulled from his nasal and sinus passages earlier this month.
“Over a couple hours my face just started swelling, my lips swelled, I could hardly talk,” the patient told WTLV in Florida. “My whole face felt like it was on fire.”
The patient went to a nearby hospital for constant nose bleeds and pain.
What the ear nose and throat doctor on call found by looking inside the man’s nose, was like something out of a scary movie:
dozens of live larva feeding on his inside face cavities.
“They were right up against his skull base, right under the brain,” Dr. David Carlson told WTLV. “Had they gone through that it could have killed him.”