Doctors Pull Out Live Cockroach From Woman's Skull And Caught It On Video

Doctors successfully removed a live cockroach from a woman’s skull -- and it was apparently caught on video.

A 42-year-old woman in India was asleep when she felt a bug crawling in her nostril, according to The New Indian Express. When she tried to brush the insect off it had already crawled inside her nostril. The woman, identified as Selvi, said she felt a “weird sensation” around her nose and eyes at night and asked her son-in-law to take her to a clinic, which then directed her to go to Stanley Medical College Hospital.

“I could not explain the feeling but I was sure it was some insect,” Selvi told The New Indian Express . “There was a tingling, crawling sensation. Whenever it moved, it gave me a burning sensation in my eyes. I spent the entire night in discomfort, sitting up and waiting for dawn to go to Stanley hospital after getting the reference of a doctor from my employer.”

Following a nasal endoscopy, doctors found the roach sitting on the skull between Selvi’s eyes.

“It was a full grown cockroach," said Dr. Shankar, according to The Times of India. "It was alive. And it didn't seem to want to come out."

Doctors said when a suction apparatus was used during the 45-minute surgery the roach clung to the tissues.

The department had previously tackled bizarre cases, like removing beads, a button cell, leech and a chalk piece from nasal cavities.

"But not a cockroach, especially not one this large," Muthuchitra told The Times of India, showing the roach on its back in a container with its wings spread and legs moving “excitedly.”

Doctors said Selvi was lucky because she went to the hospital just in time. If she would’ve ignored the problem the roach could have died and caused an infection that might have harmed her brain, according to The New Indian Express .

This is the video of the peculiar surgery: