Squirming leech is pulled from inside a man’s NOSTRIL in gruesome footage after the creature ‘wriggled up his nose while swimming in a river’
- The unnamed man was treated by a surgeon in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia
- He went to the doctor complaining of something moving around inside his nose
- The leech may have become lodged when the man went swimming in a river
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A surgeon has recorded gruesome footage of the moment he removed a live and wriggling leech from the nostril of one of his patients.
The medic uses tweezers to pinch the blood-sucking worm, pluck it off the flesh inside the man’s nose and pull it out, still alive and squirming.
The unnamed patient in Malaysia was thought to have got himself into the unusual predicament while swimming in a river a couple of weeks earlier.
And the amazed surgeon said he had never seen anything like it and that the situation had the potential to be ‘very dangerous’.
An unnamed Malaysian man visited a doctor complaining he could feel something moving around up his nose and, on examination, a leech was found sucking blood from inside his nostril
A three-minute video shows the procedure taking place at a clinic in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia in south-east Asia.
Dr Rahmat Omar, an experienced ear, nose and throat surgeon, made the stomach-churning discovery when the man turned up complaining he could feel something moving up his nose.
When Dr Omar put a small camera up the patient’s nose he discovered there was a leech latched onto the inside of his nostril.
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The video shows Dr Omar prodding the squelchy-looking worm with a metal rod, before he sends in the tweezers to grab and remove it.
Dr Omar said: ‘This was the first time I had ever seen this. I could not believe it!’
‘It must have been so uncomfortable. It obviously could have been very dangerous.’
Dr Rahmat Omar, an experienced ear, nose and throat surgeon in Kuala Lumpur, treated the patient and filmed himself working – to begin with he prodded the squelchy-looking leech with a metal rod
Dr Omar then sent in the tweezers and pinched the leech, plucking it off the inside of the man’s nose – when it was pulled off the skin it began to squirm and writhe around
Dr Omar pulled the leech out through the man’s nostril in the gruesome procedure, and said his patient tolerated it well
The Malaysian man is thought to have picked up the leech while swimming in a river a couple of weeks earlier, and Dr Omar warned him to stay away from the river in future
ARE LEECHES DANGEROUS?
Contrary to popular belief, most leeches don’t rely on drinking blood to survive. Some eat other small animals and some feed off decomposing bodies.
Blood-sucking leeches only suck about a teaspoon of blood and when they’re full they naturally fall off.
For humans, blood loss from a single leech would not be significant enough to be harmful, and their bites are not very painful becuase their saliva contains a numbing agent.
Bites may bleed after the leech has gone because the saliva stops blood clots, but this usually heals on its own.
Leech bites may cause infection in some circumstances but this should be easily treatable.
Source: Mehdi Leech Therapy
The patient explained he had been swimming in a river two weeks earlier, leading Dr Omar to believe the leech had somehow swum into his nose then and latched on.
The expert surgeon said the patient tolerated the procedure well, and gruesome footage of it has now been viewed more than 90,000 times on YouTube.
After the leech is pulled from the nostril it can be seen squirming around and stretching its body.
It appears to try and suck on a tissue the medics placed it on, and when the camera is inserted back into the man’s nose there is blood on the inside of it.
‘The patient is very lucky,’ Dr Omar added.
‘I told them to stay away from the river and I would recommend the same to other people.’
A leech is a type of segmented worm which has suckers at both ends of its body, one of which contains the mouth and is used to suck blood for the creature to feed on.
Leeches can range in size from minuscule to 20cm (eight inches) or longer when stretched out, and are found all over the world.
Leeches feed on blood by making small cuts in their prey’s skin then covering it in their saliva which numbs the area and increases blood flow.
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