is it true that we eat about 7 spiders in our lifetime?

Question

i heard this from a freind, she said they crawl in to our mouths when we are sleeping. i hope she's wrong!

don't we choke or something???

Answer 1

I have no idea. It seems possible. I hope not though because that really is gross. Wanna hear something grosser? This is true: a guy once went to the hospital complaining of severe ear aches. Then two antennas poked out of his ear. A roach had gone in his ear when he was a baby roach and grew inside the ear.

Answer 2

A spider would get no benefit by crawling into our mouths, I would suggest therefore that it is a myth created for the horror it would produce in many people.

I know an old lady who swallowed a spider,it wriggled and tickled, and tickled inside her, she swallowed the spider to catch a fly, but I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

Here's what Google found re your question:
http://angelameds.blog-city.com/eating_spiders.htm

Answer 3

Yes your friend is right im afraid. Apparently they can crawl into your mouth, ears and nose and night whilst you are asleep. They say up to 7 spiders but could be less.

Answer 4

yea I hear that this occurs mostly while you are sleep. Cause u know some people sleep with their mouth open and some people who think their mouths are always closed are usually wrng. When u are in a deep sleep, your mustles relax and your mouth does open slightly if not all the way.

"It's estimated that the average human eats one pound [half a kilogram] of insects each year unintentionally," Monachelli said.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which watches over food safety in the U.S., allows a certain amount of insects in food. Every 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of chocolate can have as much as 60 insect pieces in it!

Answer 5

yes its true ime afraid ewwwwwwwww i know they nested in a boys ear aswell thats happened to quite a few ALBANY, Ore. -- A 9-year-old boy who complained of an earache was a little surprised when the doctor told him that a pair of spiders had tried to make a home out of him.



Watch KGW report "They were walking on my eardrums," said Jesse Courtney.

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal.

His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear -- "like Rice Krispies" -- before the earache sent them to the doctor.

Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him, but he could not immediately identify it. So he irrigated the ear, and the first spider came out, dead.

The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.

Answer 6

I don't think that's true. That's probably a theory or a figure of speech. On Google, type in the keywords "we eat about 7 spiders in our lifetime". The results should give you more information. ;)

Answer 7

No wonder I didn't feel like breakfast this morning, I must have been full of spiders!
The only person who ate seven spiders in her life was the old lady who swallowed seven flies, she swallowed the spiders to catch the flies, perhaps she'll die.

Answer 8

Actually you eat more than that without knowing, You really eat more than 7 spiders and your friend was so true

Answer 9

What kind of stupid spider crawls into people's mouths to be eaten? Really.

Answer 10

If a few spiders are the worst things we ever have to eat in our lives, I would say we are very lucky.