A tourist returning from southeast Asia believed that the cause of her nosebleeds was a recent motorcycle accident. As it turned out later, a leech was the culprit of her suffering.
While traveling in southeast Asia, 24-year-old Daniela Liverani began to experience weekly nosebleeds. The girl did not seek medical help, believing that the cause of the bleeding, and then the resulting "clot", was a recent accident on a motorcycle.
A month later, a resident of Great Britain realized that she was very mistaken, writes The Telegraph.
“At first, the bloody discharge caused me inconvenience, but then it stopped and I noticed that a clot was sticking out of one nostril,” recalls Daniela. - I thought it was caked blood, so I expected that sooner or later my problems would be solved by themselves. A few days after returning home to Edinburgh, I was showering when I felt something touch my lower lip. Looking down, I saw something strange hanging from my nostril and rushed to the mirror. Having examined the ridges on the surface of the protruding clot, I finally realized that there was an animal inside me."
The horrified girl tried to get rid of the parasite on her own, but, feeling unbearable pain, she refused self-medication and went to the hospital. After the doctor examined the 24-year-old patient, doctors proceeded to remove the animal, which turned out to be a leech.
Daniela says that she will not soon forget this manipulation.
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“They took me to the treatment room and the doctor started pulling out the leech using a clamp, tweezers and a torch,” she says. - It was painful: whenever the doctor tried to grab and pull her out of the nostril, I felt her twitch inside my nose. After about half an hour, the pain stopped and the doctor took it out of my nostril. The leech was as long as my index finger and as wide as my thumb. It turns out that she lived inside me for a month."
According to doctors, the leech most likely got into the girl's nose when she was swimming in one of the reservoirs of Vietnam, or it got through the mouth while drinking drinking water.