Man wakes to cockroach stuck in his throat: ‘It had wings’ – What happened next? – Times of India
In a bizarre and unsettling medical case, a 58-year-old man from Haikou, China, woke up to the horrifying sensation of something crawling up his nose—only to later discover it was a cockroach lodged in his trachea. The incident, reported by a local news outlet, began while the man was sleeping peacefully one night. Startled by the odd feeling, he tried coughing to dislodge the intruder but eventually brushed it off and fell back asleep.'Unusual stale odor'Over the next three days, the man, continuing with his usual routine, began noticing an unusual stale odor despite maintaining his oral hygiene.He also started coughing up yellow sputum, which finally prompted him to seek medical help. Initially, an ENT specialist found no signs of a foreign object in his upper respiratory tract. However,...