Doctor finds two spiders in boy's ear

[orangeman]

Lol yeah I hate spiders too. Just something about bugs with a lot of legs...I don't like.

[Dro_Princess]

I hate spiders I can spot one if there is one in the room. If they wer ein my ear I would freak. Speaking of things being in your ear my husband couldnt hear good so we flushed his ears and he had wood dust and a tick in his ear.

[Matt the Funk]

I've had some pretty bad anxiety about spiders after I read some stupid snapple cap claiming you eat 8 spiders in your sleep in a lifetime(creepy shit). And some story my teacher read to me in the news (in like 5th grade) about some business exec who went to brazil to do some business but died in his sleep when a pincher bug crawled in his ear and ate through his brain, because they can't go backwards.

[Pylon]

I hate spiders I can spot one if there is one in the room. If they wer ein my ear I would freak. Speaking of things being in your ear my husband couldnt hear good so we flushed his ears and he had wood dust and a tick in his ear.

eww fuk a tick in his ear? that sucks; i hate ticks

[Staurm]

I bet the spiders were happy about that too, I can't imagine ear holes are the best places for spinning webs.

"Look, I'm telling you, I really think we should be on the other side of this vibrating wall!"

[reality0]

that is just creepy haha

[birdgirl73]

That is a creepy story, but if it's any reassurance to most of you, it probably only happened to that little boy because he was young and had exceptionally clean ears. Very young kids' ears are shaped differently than they are as adults, which might make insect access easier. And the sebaceous secretions (waxy, oily secretions) that older kids and adults produce have natural insect-repellent qualities. If that weren't the case, we'd hear of this problem a lot more often since bugs like dark, safe hiding places and niches.

Matt, that story you remember hearing as a child was folklore. Even if a spider could get through the tympanic membrane and deep enough into the inner ear to be close to the brain through the skull, it couldn't eat through to a person's brain because spiders can't chew through bone. The only anatomical part that connects the ear to the brain is the cochlear nerve, which isn't a tube. The Eustacian tube connects the ears to the back top corner of the throat on each side, but a spider wouldn't be able to travel that path, either. Too salty and covered with mucous membrane.

[mfqr]

For real...I recently got over a phobia of spiders...

Lol, me too! I have slowly stopped being completely freaked out by them. I don't think I have spiders in my ears, though :thumbsup:.

[passitplz]

hey mr bully dnt hit me or my spiders will get u


dnt ask

wtf?

yea... i asked

[orangeman]

Matt, that story you remember hearing as a child was folklore. Even if a spider could get through the tympanic membrane and deep enough into the inner ear to be close to the brain through the skull, it couldn't eat through to a person's brain because spiders can't chew through bone. The only anatomical part that connects the ear to the brain is the cochlear nerve, which isn't a tube. The Eustacian tube connects the ears to the back top corner of the throat on each side, but a spider wouldn't be able to travel that path, either. Too salty and covered with mucous membrane.

Just a question Birdgirl have you ever been tempted to paralyze some one? Haha it seems like you know everything about the human body.