Doctor finds spiders in a boy's ear (you never know, this info might be useful)

[Raineyrocks]

 Doctor finds spiders in ear of boy with earache
POSTED: 4:19 a.m. EDT, May 7, 2007

ALBANY, Oregon (AP) -- These guys were not exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop.

What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear -- "like Rice Krispies" -- ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.

"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear -- "like Rice Krispies."

Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.

When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.

Jesse was given the spiders -- now both dead -- as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.

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[penguins4me]

Those poor, murdered, innocent spiders... :(

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[dalebert]

Oh, that happened to me! The occasional pain was unbearable, presumably when it was walking on my eardrum. I was able to rinse it out myself. I just filled my ear with water and then turned my head sideways and a tiny spider fell into the sink, still alive. I rinsed it down the drain. It was even smaller than those described in the article. The pain stopped immediately.

[Raineyrocks]

Oh, that happened to me! The occasional pain was unbearable, presumably when it was walking on my eardrum. I was able to rinse it out myself. I just filled my ear with water and then turned my head sideways and a tiny spider fell into the sink, still alive. I rinsed it down the drain. It was even smaller than those described in the article. The pain stopped immediately.

Wow, I never even thought of that happening.  I know I read somewhere that in a person's lifetime they eat a certain amount, (forget how many), of spiders while sleeping.  I guess if you sleep with your mouth open.  I remember one time I woke up in the middle of the night and on the wall in front of my bed I saw this shadow of a web and a big spider hanging down at the end of it.  I got real scared and I looked up and the spider was actually dangling a couple inches above my head, but it was smaller than the shadow.  Yuk, makes you wonder what other stuff happens when your sleeping and you don't even know.

[dalebert]

I know I read somewhere that in a person's lifetime they eat a certain amount, (forget how many), of spiders while sleeping.

I think that might actually be a myth. Where would they come up with that number? I'm sure it's possible, but I don't know that it would necessarily be a common occurrence. My ear spider probably got in there during the day. The pain started sometime in the evening and went on and got worse as I was trying to go to sleep until I finally decided to just try rinsing it out.

[Raineyrocks]

I know I read somewhere that in a person's lifetime they eat a certain amount, (forget how many), of spiders while sleeping.

I think that might actually be a myth. Where would they come up with that number? I'm sure it's possible, but I don't know that it would necessarily be a common occurrence. My ear spider probably got in there during the day. The pain started sometime in the evening and went on and got worse as I was trying to go to sleep until I finally decided to just try rinsing it out.

Yeah really, I never thought of "how would they come up with that number".  Do they have hidden cameras in everyone's house to count the eaten spiders while we sleep? But then again I wonder how they actually come up with statistics for lots of stuff, like how many insect particles go into a jar of peanut butter, etc. Maybe they just make up this crap and collect some kind of study or grant money for nothing. ???