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If you’re squeamish, then look away now.

This is the absolutely disgusting moment a live leech is dragged out of a man’s nostril by a doctor in China.

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The 51-year-old patient had been having nosebleeds for 10 days non-stop and went to hospital when his wife said she saw something ‘peek’ out of his nose.

When she looked again, the live creature had disappeared, leading her to believe there was something a little more sinister going on.


The medical procedure to removed the parasite was performed by Dr Liu Xiongguang at the Beihai People’s Hospital in South China.

The 51-year-old had been suffering with nosebleeds for 10 days and his wife made him go to the hospital when she saw something ‘peek’ out of his nostril (Picture: AsiaWire)

The doctor managed to successfully pull the creature out of the man’s nostril (Picture: AsiaWire)

A nurse filmed the procedure, and once you start watching, you can’t look away.



As he extracts the beast, Dr Liu can be heard telling the man to be calm as he pulls on it.

When it does eventually emerge from the man’s face, he seems to be looking at it with a mixture of horror and strange fascination.

The nurse ‘almost collapsed in fright’ when she saw it, Dr Liu added.

It is not known exactly how the slithery creature ended up his nasal cavity, but it it thought that it could have gone up there when he swam in a river.

Leeches can attach themselves to the skin or even inside noses and mouths.

They can suck as much as five times their own body weight in blood.

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