Cockroach in ear

federica

This whole thread reminds me of the days before I left for India...

My mom: "When you'll come back you won't be afraid anymore of spiders, cockraches and all the other animals like that "

Not 100% percent true, but I am much more relaxed now with these creatures... maybe because I never had a cockroach in my ear...

double-dolphin

What a creepy story!!! Ok, I have like major cockroach issues. If there is one in the room I usually leave the room. I especially hate the flying variety. I usually have a very fat can of baygon right next to me at home.

As far as keeping them away is concerned, the boric acid is good, but I think it's probably best to do it in a room which is locked once the poison is put in, otherwise the dead roaches go all over the place and that is seriously GROSS!!!

I have generally found that if you don't eat food all over the place, have one specific place in the house for dumping garbage (like ONE bin where everything goes, and is emptied out daily), and spray stuff like baygon regularly, like twice a week, you won't see them. I mean they come expecting food, make sure they don't get it, and they won't be back.

But what I can't understand is how a cockroach, which is half the size of my little finger could crawl into someone's ear??!! I mean I knew foreigners were supposed to be tall, but this is ridiculous!!!

amyl

Small cockroaches are also called cockroaches

There are indeed small cockroaches. I have seen as small as my small-finger nail ones. They can easily fit in ones nostril/ears. One can fit in the normal ones, which everyone is assuming here, only in mouth and in no way ears/nostrils. You of course can fit in the smaller ones in your mouth too!

Here is one google search to show the different sizes. Do not open this link if you are having food or going to have.
Honest suggestion!

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GauhatiBoy

In Gauhati I had a huge flying cockroach fly into my face. It landed on my nose. Imagine a boy saying eek

double-dolphin

EEEEEEEEEEKKK!!! Totally GROSS!!! Please stop!!! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK!

Nick-H

Take a deep breath ...and get a grip!

It's an insect.

Not a dangerous one...

And not even a particularly unpleasant one.

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JamesW

I think once they crawl inside your ear you can consider them unpleasant!

double-dolphin

Not particularly unpleasant? Speak for yourself.......EEEWWWW

Nick-H

I guess that is a great example of the a weed is a plant growing in the wrong place principle

Unpleasant? They are not slimy, they do not bite. They are brown (usually) and have long feelers.

An infestation of them is very unpleasant --- which is why I won't let the individuals (to whom I have no personal objection) live in my house.

Yes, they need to be controlled.

Ants --- they bite, they get in your food, they turn up by the million. Mosquitoes --- probably the worst of the day-to-day insects. And yet the EEEEUUUUGH treatment is reserved for cockroaches.

Hey! I guess there's no way I can force anyone else to like beetles!

GauhatiBoy

I really have an admiration for weeds--as I see it they are the toughest plants there are, and why not admire them for that rather than see it as a question of my own preferences. They assert themselves and are real survivors in the plant world.

Bigzero

Interesting thread!

I find keeping the cockroaches off the microwave a big challenge. No matter how clean you try to maintain the microwave, you find them crawling about between the two layers of the front glass. Mostly small ones.

By the way, here is a cockroach FAQ for those who are interested

http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kun...roach_faq.html

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ALPHABAR

the important thing is that you get them out before they lay their eggs. i had an insect in my ear a few years ago - it happened on a greek island - not in india.

i'd just had a shower so thought the fluttering in my ear was water....but no,the sensation continued.

eventually i went to a doctor - he took a look in my ear with a torch/magnifying glass instrument and said "yep - you've got an insect in there" ! and they can be difficult to dislodge, as when they get scared they dig their feet in, literally. the important thing he said was to get it out "before it lays any eggs"...

yikes !

he knew exactly what to do.

first you kill the insect by squirting into the ear canal something that it doesn't like.

next step is to fill a large syringe with water, lean your head to one side and let him inject a fast stream of water into your ear canal....

bingo ! this successfully dislodged the insect and he presented it to me on a petri dish - and then put it in a bottle with alcohol to preserve it as a souvenir...

25 euros very well spent.

Nick-H

My favourite tropical travel insect story...

Guy gets home from his travels with an itchy bump on his head. Aske his girlfriend to take a look, and she sees something moveing, disappearing back into the small hole in the centre of the bump.

The go to the hospital. The tropical specialist guy recognises it, tells the man to sit with a lump of raw meat on his head for a while, and sure enough, said insect transfers itself to the new meat

Dead Granny Story? I do hope not

amyl

Yea! So at times I feared roasting them with my maggie or over my paratha. I have learned to open the door, give some pats, and let them come out if any.

You seem to have enjoyed that sensation of getting that hole cleaned of EVERYTHING. One of my friends did that spray-clean thing at an ENT. He said you can hear even the smallest hustle around and its very loud for sometime but it feels really good. I want to do that sometime when in India.....must cheaper there!


BTW ever wondered why cleaning one's ear with a bud or something is so.....ummm may I say pleasurable, relieving or what.... People seem to enjoy the act of putting some stick and just tantalize it if not really clean it.

GauhatiBoy

That sounds just like the urban legend that was disproved

Isn't it fun to make things up, but then some people are looking for that excitement! And if your acquaintance believes it, you will believe it from them too. How creepy India is if you hear all the rumors!!