An Unusual Unexpected Night Crawler into the Ear : A Cockroach

Abstract

Figure 2: Image of the cockroach impacted inside the left ear Case Report A young male adult in his late thirty presented to me, at the private clinical dermatological setting dated back in 2006, in Tripoli, with the complaint that a cockroach has crawled inside his left ear, while he was sleeping at night. The patient was certain it is a cockroach. I was astonished and incredulous with his presentation at first as i never encountered such incident before and I was not sure of his complaint until I had my Auroscope (Earscope) in his external auditory meatus, and then I realised it was truly and literally as the man explained. A cockroach had died as it could not manage to move out and got trapped in and finally died. This can be explained due to the fact of the anatomical reasons, that the cockroach was unable to back out of the external auditory canal, and the more it tries to back out, the more stuck it becomes.