Maggots found in woman’s nose

Warning – Gross story. An Indian woman in Mumbai was found to have 40 maggots crawling inside her nose and chewing her flesh after doctors could not figure out what was wrong with her.

The 70 year old woman had a nose bleed for 5 days and her family took her to 2 hospitals but the doctors did not realize what was wrong with her and gave her nosedrops which of course did not work. Only after she was taken to the civic-run Sion Hospital that doctors found out she had maggots inside her nose!

Doctors cannot figure out how the maggots got in there, but the old woman told doctors that the day before the bleeding started, a housefly flew into her nose, and it looks like the fly laid eggs in there, the maggots hatched, started chewing her flesh, and that’s why she was bleeding from her nose!

Maggots hatch within 8-20 hours and immediately start feeding at the place where they hatched. Generally, maggots only infest open wounds, so this is a really odd case.

Source: Times of India