What is the white mud scraped out of the scalp?
How come after a few gentle scratches, the dandruff is flying all over the sky?
A pimple on the scalp on the back of the head, itchy hands want to cut?
stop!!!
Middle-aged people sigh as the hairline moves back
Young people are laughing at themselves for being bald
However, the trouble that appears on the scalp is really "fatal"
Today we will walk together
The real event that makes people 'scalp tingles' -
The doctor clipped the maggots out of the patient's scalp!
Brianna, the eldest daughter of the Skerick family, traveled with her family to Colombia for a week-long church trip — volunteering at the local orphanage. No one could have imagined that this trip would become an unforgettable "adventure" of her life.
On the last night of the trip, Mother Joy discovers Something out of Mindana.com. Always cheerful and lively, she was unusual that night, she did not like to talk to people, curled up on the stairs alone with her knees, her body shook involuntarily, and said that the right side of her head, near the top of her ears, was in some pain.
Brianna spends all day at the water park, and even though she puts on her sunscreen, Joey thinks it might be because her daughter has been in the sun for too long. Considering that she was a child who did not cry out for pain easily, her mother decided to take her to the local clinic immediately.
The doctor looked at Brianna's sore area and noticed that it was red, tender, and emitted several small blisters. Combined with the experience of "going to the water park" given by the patient's family, the doctor finally gave a diagnosis of heliopause dermatitis.
Insolation dermatitis is actually a more serious sunburn, usually diagnosed by observing skin redness, pain and the appearance of blisters.
Brianna had an infusion at the clinic and the doctor gave her some antibiotics, expecting her condition to ease, but when her mother, Joy, went to wake up her daughter the next morning, she found herself even more uncomfortable.
Brianna's head was still hurting, so Joey picked up a flashlight to examine her daughter's scalp, and she found that there were about 20 small bags on her head, some close together, some a little far away, but all concentrated in the area above the right ear.
When she wanted to take a closer look, she was completely shocked by the scene in front of her.
Some of the bags seem to be still moving, as if they are bubbling, they are not moving up or down or left and right, but as if they are spinning.
Joey didn't dare tell Brianna the truth, and she could only soothe her daughter, who was getting more and more troubled, while concentrating on urging everyone to pack up and leave.
The Skerricks soon boarded a flight home, but Brianna was in worse shape by this time. Some of the bags on her head had been torn and oozing bloody liquid, and father Todd was stunned by the injury.
It all looked as if someone had poked her in the head with a pencil.
When the plane landed in New York, Brianna was immediately admitted to the local emergency room, where dermatologist Dr. Kahuita Marevala took over her case.
Brianna's consciousness was still very clear, she clearly expressed the location of her headache, and Dr. Marivara immediately examined her in detail.
In those small, shallow, similarly corroded marks, the doctor noticed a hint of strangeness, and the holes seemed to be bouncing up and down.
She bent down to take a closer look at Brianna's wound, and finally at a distance of about five centimeters from her scalp, she seemed to hear her scalp "snorting."
There was a living thing in the scalp, and the doctor immediately reached into one of the small holes with forceps, and she slowly pulled out until a maggot was pulled out of the hole——
When I took the tweezers out, I realized that there was a maggot on the tip of the tweezers, and it was still struggling and bouncing around.
Dr. Marivara sent maggots for testing, and she quickly diagnosed Brianna with the New World spiral maggot.
New World spiral fly maggots are larvae of spiral flies that devour Brianna's scalp with their powerful jaws, causing trauma to her scalp and causing stinging. In addition to this, the New World spiral fly maggots have one of the most disturbing concerns – they like to eat the flesh of live animals. As the surface tissues of the skin die, they burrow into the host's body in search of fresh meat to eat. If left untreated, these spiral maggots can cause host death.
Judging from Brianna's injuries, there are more maggots in her scalp than she just pulled out, and in order to save her life, Dr. Marivara must remove all the maggots as soon as possible...
Debridement treatments had to race against the clock, but with no other choice but to remove them all by hand, one by one, Dr. Marevala decided to use a non-traditional technique he had heard about in medical school.
She wrapped Brianna's head in bacon, a method that took advantage of the maggots' search for raw meat to eat. The medical team wrapped raw bacon around her head, but the method was too slow.
Instead of trying to lure them out, Dr. Marivara decided to suffocate them.
She chose to coat Brianna's head with thick petroleum jelly oil, covering all the pores, and the new world spiral flies that were blocked by the air would choose to climb out and "breathe", they would all fall into the thick vaseline oil layer, and then scrape the oil layer away, which would take away a large number of "culprits".
Scrape off, smear, scrape, reapply... For the next three days, Dr. Marivara applied Brianna every few hours. Each time, she was able to remove more and more maggots from Brianna's head.
It wasn't until the last bug left Brianna's head that the medical team and family were relieved, and they removed a total of 212 maggots from the wound.
Since then, Brianna's condition has improved significantly, and after 5 days in the hospital, she can finally be discharged and go home.
Everyone was incredulous about the number of maggots that were finally removed, so how could there be hundreds of maggots in Brianna's scalp?
New World spiral fly maggots are mainly distributed in the tropics of Central and South America, and their main hosts are livestock and deer. Female flies can lay up to 400 eggs at a time, and once they hatch, the results are disastrous.
Brianna's mum, Joey, believes her daughter was infected in Colombia. Brianna had suffered from psoriasis, so she often scratched her head, and it was possible that the female flies found an open wound in her head and laid eggs inside.
However, no matter how much suffering she has experienced, Brianna says one thing will never change —
I never stop traveling, I love to travel.
In fact, human infection with The New World spiral fly maggot is very rare, in the United States, for example, this spiral fly was eradicated 30 years ago, until October 2016, the Florida Department of Agriculture reported a case of local deer infection, people have to worry that this parasite will make a comeback again...
Experts suggest that the best way to prevent spiral fly maggot infection is to confirm that the place you are going to is not an endemic area, and if there is an open wound or ulcer on the body, you must ensure that it is effectively covered.