This is a horror story like no other.
A Scottish woman recently took a trip to Vietnam when she started experiencing random nosebleeds, which she figured were from a bursted blood vessel she suffered after falling off a motorbike.
According to the Daily Record, Daniela Liverani reported that the nosebleeds eventually stopped, but she later found a leech camping out inside of her nose.
She told the site:
“When I was in the shower, he would come right out as far as my bottom lip and I could see him sticking out the bottom of my nose,” Liverani said. “So when that happened last Thursday, I jumped out of the shower to look really closely in the mirror and I saw ridges on him. That’s when I realised he was an animal.”
Doctors said that the leech would have eventually wormed its way through her brain, but fortunately she was able to fix the problem before that occurred.
How did she get a leech in her nose exactly? Well, an expert told the site:
“Daniela could have picked up this leech from water in Vietnam, if she had been swimming.
“Or it could have gone in through her mouth, as she was drinking water.
“Even though it was there for around a month, these leeches don’t grow all that quickly, so it wouldn’t have been much smaller when it went up there. It would have been quite sizeable.
“It’s interesting that people don’t feel these leeches go up their nose.”
That does not sound pretty. No, not at all.
SOURCE: Daily Record | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
