‘A bugging feeling’: a live foreign body in the ear
Thomas Calleja
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-316881

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Case report
We present a case of a 16-year-old man who presented to our ENT emergency department in Malta with a 2-day history of acute-onset right ear pruritus and otalgia, describing a distressing ‘bugging feeling’ intermittently. His parents denied having any medical history but they admitted to residing in poor living conditions in a small flat with a cockroach infestation. Otoscopic examination of the right ear showed an insect obscuring the …

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