Larvae Take Up Residence on Man's Head Posted: Jul. 17 9:14 p.m. Updated: Jul. 17 11:39 p.m. CARBONDALE, Colo. — Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas' head might be from gnat bites or shingles. Then the bumps started moving. A doctor found five active bot fly larvae living beneath the skin atop Dallas' head. "I'd put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought it was blood coursing through my head," Dallas told the (Glenwood Springs) Post Independent. "I could hear them. I actually thought I was going crazy." Dallas said he likely received the larval infestation while on a trip to Belize this summer. Bot fly infections are not uncommon in parts of Central and South America. Adult bot flies are hairy and look like bees, without bristles. The larvae, which are about one-third the size of a penny, were living in a pit 2- to 3- millimeters wide. They were removed Thursday. "It was weird and traumatic," said Dallas, of Carbondale. "I would get this pain that would drop me to my knees." After a specialist told him he might have shingles, Dallas tried different creams and salves. But the pain only got worse. "When I saw him again, it was pretty obvious something else was going on," said Dr. Kimball Spence, who could see the spots moving on Dallas' head. "There's an open pit. You see a little activity, not necessarily the larvae, but a fluctuation of the fluid in the pit." Dallas' wife, Midge Dallas, teased him about it. "I told him, 'I will love you through your maggots,'" she told the newspaper. But Dallas saw little to laugh about. "It's much funnier to everyone else," he said. "It makes my stomach turn over. It was cruel."
That is so NASTY!! What about the rugby player with someone else's tooth embedded in his forehead. GROSS!! :shock:
Ewwww - i agree with the title of this thread:shock: But, like Craig, how did they get there to start with????
Here is another one to add to the list for the Mom's on the board: http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/1611430/ Woman wins court case so she can get placenta back.....................she originally wanted to............................shall we say..................injest it. I DON"T THINK SO!
Ewwwwwwwwww is right!!!!! That gives me something intresting to tell my husband tonight,lol. Can't complain of boring conversation tonight!:lol:
I guess when the man was in Belize a fly (or whatever kind of insect it was) landed on his head and embedded the eggs. I've heard of this also happening to someone who visited the Carribean on vacation! Apparently there is a species of insects that live in that climate that do that sort of thing and its not that uncommon there. It just doesn't get diagnosed very often because dr's don't always think of something like that happening 'round here'. :-D
