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A 19-year old with earache discovered a cockroach family had taken up residence inside his ear.

The man, only known as Mr Li, went to hospital, complaining of an itchy painful ear.

When doctors looked inside it, they found a female cockroach and her 25 babies.

Medics reckon the mother must have crawled into his ear several weeks before and laid her eggs.

If he had not gone to hospital when he did, they say the growing insects would have destroyed his ear canal.

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Yang Jing, a doctor from Chang’an Xiaobian Hospital, in Dongguan, told TVS: “We saw an insect-shaped object blocking his ear canal completely.”

Good grief.

Itchy now? Don’t have nightmares.