The cockroach being removed (Picture: SWNS)

A disturbing video has shown a live cockroach crawling around a woman’s skull after she said she felt ‘burning.’

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The cockroach had to be removed after it got stuck in the Indian woman’s head and crawled between her ears.

Domestic helper Selvi, 42, felt a ‘crawling sensation’ in her right nostril and new video shows exactly why she felt the ‘burning’ feeling.

Scuttling around her head, the cockroach was captured sitting between her eyes. If she had ignored the feeling experts say the cockroach would have died and caused an infection by Selvi’s brain.


The scuttling insect ws removed in a 45 minute operation (Newslions / SWNS)

The 42-year-old, from Injambakkam, India, said: ‘My immediate reaction after feeling that crawling sensation in the right nostril was to brush it off in half sleep.



‘But before I could do anything, it went inside. I could not explain the feeling but I was sure it was some insect.

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‘There was a tingling and crawling sensation. Whenever it moved, it gave me a burning sensation in my eyes.’

Doctors raced to remove the pesky insect and 45 minutes later it was captured in a clear glass jar.

Selvi, who does not want to give her full name, was taken by her son to a clinic but they couldn’t identify what was the problem.

The next day she was rushed to a state-run Stanley Medical College Hospital, in Chennai, where doctors discovered the insect.

It could have died and become infected by the brain (Pictures: SWNS)

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.

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‘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 first drag it to a place from where I could pull it out. It was finally removed after 45 minutes.’