Tuesday 31 October 2006

Mystery Solved!


The mystery of the worm is solved! The doctors at NUH called us on Monday to tell us that the laboratory report states the 'worm' in Ethan's ear was actually the larvae of a fly. The picture above is not the actual infidel, but a similar one I found on the Internet. Ethan's persecutor was older cos it was longer, had dark spots, and lots of little legs.

Since it was a fly larvae, it seems that this was a one-in-a-million kind of accident where a fly landed on Ethan's ear, laid an egg, and the egg happened to drop inside and it grew until it became a larvae. When it started to get bigger and move around, it caused pain and secretions to come out of the ear. While this sounds quite horrible, it is actually good news. This means that it was not the result of contamination or human to human transmission, so there is no reason to fear a repeat occurrence.

It has been quite funny to hear the variety of postulated theories before the lab report came back - everything from wood-worm infected the cot, a human worm from the parents, infected car seats, and worm-from-apple dropped while Mum was taking a bite and holding Ethan sideways! I guess all were possible except the last one...

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

ekkk!!

I WAS right, is was a maggot!, amazing how this could have happened.

anyways - like you said this is good news in a bad new format as it looks like you dont have to worry about other infections. etc

Anonymous said...

oh! the above comment is from Martin..:)

Wilson Tan said...

i swear it's a worm from the parents (ok, maybe just ivan)!

Anonymous said...

That is horrible! Good thing his little ear drums are ok!
Adrian/Ruth

Anonymous said...

Ouch! Must have nurt eal badly... Poor darling:{

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