A patient with ear pain went to the doctor only to discover a lizard had been living inside her head for two days.
Thai physician Varanya Nganthavee, 25, discovered a gecko inside her patient’s ear on her first day on the job at Rajavithi Hospital in Bangkok on Monday.
The young doctor was surprised to see something wriggling when she examined her patient’s ear.
A nurse removed the lizard from the ear with tweezers after Dr Nganthavee treated the area with anaesthetic drops.
‘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 captioned a photo of the lizard on Facebook.
A patient with ear pain went to the doctor only to discover a lizard (pictured) had been living inside her head for two days
Thai physician Varanya Nganthavee (pictured), 25, discovered a gecko inside a patient’s ear on her first day on the job at Rajavithi Hospital in Bangkok on Monday
Dr Nganthavee was worried there were gecko parts left in the ear and took the patient to a specialist ENT doctor on Tuesday.
‘The doctor confirmed that the ear had been cleared and that no gecko tail remains,’ the newly graduated doctor wrote.
‘I’m very happy! The doctor complimented me for doing a good job… I could cry.’
The gecko appeared to be a juvenile small house gecko which are very common in Thailand where they are called Jing Jok.
How it managed to get into the ear and survive for two days has baffled doctors.
Dr Nganthavee (pictured) was worried there were gecko parts left in the ear and took the patient to a specialist ENT doctor on Tuesday
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