A woman with ear pain went to a hospital and discovered a gecko had been living inside her head!
Doctor Varanya Nganthavee, 25, was shocked to see something wriggling when she examined her patient’s ear during her first day on the job at Rajavithi Hospital in Bangkok.
The young Thai doctor treated the area with anesthetic drops before a nurse removed the animal from the patient’s ear with tweezers.
“This was my last case of the day…. I am so confused. How did a huge gecko crawl into a tiny ear hole?” Dr. Nganthavee wrote on Facebook as she shared a photo of the animal.
Worried that there were gecko parts left inside the ear, she took the patient to an Ear, Nose, Throat (ENT) doctor.
She thought that somehow while trying to remove the lizard from the patient’s ear, its tail might’ve come off.
The newly graduated doctor added: “The doctor confirmed that the ear had been cleared and that no gecko tail remains.
“I’m very happy! The doctor complimented me for doing a good job… I could cry.”
This type of gecko is very common in Thailand and is called Jing Jok. This one was just a baby but how it crawled into the patient’s ear canal remains a mystery.
One person commented: “As an owner of geckos this is something that is so fake and never happened, an ear is tiny and no way would a gecko fit in an ear at any age.”
Another wrote: “Only in asia these crazy things happen.”
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