A Man finds out cockroach is living in his EAR… and it has given birth to 25 babies

    

                   

Most people would be absolutely appalled to find a cockroach living in their home, never mind inside their body.  

Doctors in Guangdong Province, southern China were recently horrified to discover an entire family of roaches living in a young man's ear, after he came in complaining of earache,The People's Daily Online reported. 

The 19-year-old man, named only as Mr Li, woke up in the middle of the night after his right ear began itching and hurting.

cockroach made herself a home in Mr Li's ear canal weeks before

When Mr Li went to hospital in the morning, doctors looked in his ear and found that it was crawling with tiny insects.

Doctors believe a female cockroach made herself a home in Mr Li's ear canal several weeks before, before laying eggs. 

A doctor demonstrates how he examined Mr Li's ear, and made the horrific discovery. 

Yang Jing, a doctor from Chang'an Xiaobian Hospital in Dongguan, told TVS: 'We saw an insect-shaped object blocking his ear canal completely.'

The doctor later extracted a cockroach, measuring 0.3 inches long, from Mr. Li's ear.

After further checks, Dr. Yang found another 25 baby cockroaches in his patient's ear, which were thought to be laid by the female roach. 

In total, doctors recovered 26 roaches from Mr Li's ear: the mother, plus 25 babies the size of small mosquitoes. 

After removing the unwelcome guests, the doctor told Mr Li that if he had not come to hospital when he did his ear 'would have been destroyed.'

Depending on temperature, a typical batch of cockroach eggs can take between 24 to 70 days to hatch, which means the mother cockroach may have been living in Mr Li's ear for some time.

Cockroaches are among the hardiest insects; some species are capable of remaining active for a month without food and are able to survive on limited resources.

They are mainly nocturnal and prefer dark, warm conditions - such as those found in the ear canal.