Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Ants & Death


Incident 1:

A little boy died because surgeons found ants in his brain! Apparently this boy had fell asleep with some sweets in his mouth or with some sweet stuff beside him. Ants soon got to him and some ants in fact crawled into his ear which somehow managed to go to his brain. When he woke up, he did not realize that ants had gone to his head. After that, he constantly complains about itchiness around his face. His mother brought him to see a doctor but the doctor could not figure out what was wrong with him. He took an X-ray of the boy and to his horror, he found a group of live ants in his skull. Since the ants ar e still alive, the doctor could not operate on him because the ants are constantly moving about. The boy at last died.


Incident 2:

Another similar incident happened in the hospital in Taiwan . This man was warded in the hospital and was constantly warned by the nurses not to leave food stuff by his bedside for there are ants about. He did not heed their advice. Ants finally got to him. His family members said that the man constantly complained about headaches. He died and a post mortem or autopsy was done on him. Doctors found a group of live ants in his head. Apparently, the ants had been eating bits of his brain.


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I do not know how true this is, but there are possibilities that this might happen.
Better be safe than sorry, right?


So please be careful when you leave food beside your bed or when you are eating in bed. This might attract ants.

3 comments:

doc said...

this is definitely the stuff ridley's believe it or not is made of!!

almost impossible to occur. the ants would have to eat thru the ear drum (ouch, very painful!), travel within a small cavity called middle ear & then bore thru bone to enter the brain.

but i'd be happy to be proven wrong!

vagus said...

medically not possible. sorry.
besides, ants won't appear on skull xrays.

:)

Karen M said...

Ahhh....
So it's those bedtime stories mommy uses to tell kids...