Daniela Liverani, 24, had been housing a 3-inch leech in her nose for a month without knowing, the Daily Record reports. When the Edinburgh woman began experiencing nosebleeds while traveling for a month in Vietnam, she thought she had burst a blood vessel after falling off a motorcycle. She also would sometimes see something sticking out of her nostril but thought it was just congealed blood and just sniffed it back up.
But a few days after she returned to Scotland, she looked in the mirror to examine her nose and was shocked that what was inside was no ordinary blood clot – it was a 3-inch-long leech – as wide as a thumb.
Though, doctors at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary were able to pull the leech out, Liverani is yet to fully overcome the shock of that weird experience. In 2011, Tao Jiayuan, a Chinese boy who suffered severely from a sore throat later realised it was a 4-inch leech that had been living in his windpipe. Some scary experience you can say.
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