Watch: Doctors remove live cockroach from woman's skull!

• Suddenly she began to feel burning feeling in her head

Web Report/India

Doctors removed a living cockroach from the skull of a 42-year-old Indian woman after she complained of burning sensation inside her skull.

A crawling sensation in the right nostril woke Selvi up in the middle of the night. Suddenly she began to feel burning feeling in her head.

According to The Sun, doctors used nasal endoscopy to find the creepy crawly "sitting in the skull base between her eyes".

"My immediate reaction after feeling that crawling sensation in the right nostril was to brush it off in half sleep," Selvi was quoted saying by The Sun.

"But before I could do anything, it went inside. I could not explain the feeling but I was sure it was some insect. There was a tingling and 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."
Dr M N Shankar, head of the ENT department at the hospital, said"This is the first such case I have seen in my three decades of practice."

"It was sitting in the skull base, between the two eyes, close to the brain. If left inside, it would have died before long and the patient would have developed infection which would have spread to the brain."

"It was difficult to remove it because of the place it was sitting in. I had to drag it to a place from where I could pull it out."

"It was finally removed after 45 minutes."