serious question, please give serious replies or dont.
2007-10-10 10:59:56 · 7 answers · asked by ankitmi 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ First Aid
Nope. However cockroaches have crawled into peoples ears and got stuck. I would imagine if that happened you would certainly be freaking out, and thinking that it is eating your brain.
2007-10-10 11:08:05 · answer #1 · answered by "McRib" NREMT-P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found this on the net and this is probably true since I've heard it on the news: Shanghai - How do you remove a stray cockroach jammed in the ear? Get the insect drunk. A doctor in the south-east Chinese port city of Xiamen plucked a 1,5cm cockroach from a 12-year-old boy's ear with tweezers four minutes after dousing it with alcohol, the official China Daily newspaper reported. The doctor at the city's Zhongshan Hospital, who wasn't identified, sees up to two patients each month with similar insect problems, the paper said. The report didn't say how the cockroach got into the ear of the boy, whose name wasn't given. "Victims of similar intrusions should seek medical help and not attempt to remove the cockroach themselves as there was a real risk of the eardrum being damaged," the report said. - Sapa-AP **** By the way, I got into searching these things since I am currently wondering what kind of insect entered my ear this morning....and it's driving me crazy. That's how it gets you crazy. I hope it's just an ant.
2016-04-08 01:39:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would need to get past the eardrum, and even then it could only go into your nose, sinuses, or throat. In order to get under the skin or into your brain it would need to actively tunnel through your flesh, and cockroaches really aren't flesh-burrowing animals. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
2007-10-10 11:06:20 · answer #3 · answered by Brent L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Night Gallery episode - and it was an earwig. Cockroaches aren't likely to get past the eardrum. They could crawl into your nose - but don't you think you'd wake up and sneeze it out?
Brain parasites:
http://eands.caltech.edu/articles/LXVI4/brainworms.html
Parasitic diseases:
http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/dpd/parasites/index.htm
There are a wide variety of things that can enter a human body - cockroaches aren't generally one of them.
Cockroach urban legends:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/cockroaches/Bugs_Cockroaches.htm
Cockroach FAQ:
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/cockroach_faq.html
2007-10-10 11:13:14 · answer #4 · answered by pepper 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not! Cockroaches are not parasites; they are scavengers, typically living in warm places like kitchens and feeding on food debris.
2007-10-10 11:04:51 · answer #5 · answered by Michael B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a child (decades ago!), a small cochroach crawled into one of my friend's ears while she was sleeping. She had a terrible sinus/ear infection. The ear-nose-throat doctor ended up putting tubes in her ears. He found cochroach legs in her ear!
2007-10-10 14:14:13 · answer #6 · answered by annswers 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. No more Wrath Of Khan before bedtime for YOU.
2007-10-12 14:46:57 · answer #7 · answered by rissaofthesaiyajin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋