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WATCH: Spider crawls out of woman's ear canal

A living spider has been removed from the ear of a woman who suddenly felt pain in her ear while relaxing at her home in India.

It was just another day for the 49-year-old housewife, who was unwinding after completing her household chores. Her regular routine is to lie down on the veranda during summer afternoons. However, this day was different.

As she woke up after falling asleep for a couple of hours, she started feeling discomfort in her right ear. She tried to remove the particle with the help of her finger but failed.

The woman says she could feel the spider inside her ear. Source: Newsflare
The woman says she could feel the spider inside her ear. Source: Newsflare

After experiencing unbearable pain and discomfort, she asked her daughter to look into her ear with a torch.

The pain became unbearable and her husband rushed her to Columbia Asia Hospital.

“I was terrified as I could feel movement of a creature in my ear,” the woman said.

“The acute earache followed by sharp pains suffocated me. I couldn’t think of anything and was petrified when the doctor confirmed presence of a spider in my ear.”

The doctor said it was a rare case to see a spider moving around inside the ear canal. Source: Newsflare
The doctor said it was a rare case to see a spider moving around inside the ear canal. Source: Newsflare

Video footage shows the spider sitting inside the woman's ear.

“It is common to see emergency room visits due to the presence a foreign object in the ear, and it takes a simple procedure to remove the object,” consulting medical officer, Dr Santosh Shivaswamy, said.

“However, when a living insect makes its way inside a human ear, the patient might get frightened making it difficult for the doctor to continue the procedure. It was a rare case to see a spider moving inside the ear canal.”