Spider Found Living in Woman's Ear Canal (Photo)

A spider crawled into a Chinese woman's ear and lived there for five days until doctors could flush it out.

A spider crawled inside a woman, known only as Ms. Lee's, ear canal and lived there for five days before doctors extracted it.

Ms. Lee arrived at China's Changsha Central Hospital of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery on Aug. 8, RedNet News notes. She complained of an itchy ear and was hoping doctors could treat her.

When Dr. Liu Sheng took a look inside, he found a spider living in the woman's ear canal. Apparently, the spider had crawled into Ms. Lee's ear while she slept.

The doctor and his colleagues decided to force the spider out of the woman's ear canal with a saline solution, as they worried that attempting to take the living spider out with equipment would only cause it to drill its barbs deeper, the report notes.

A photo of the woman's ear was posted to Reddit by user Psycho0222. Within the Reddit thread, another user recounts a similar incident in which a spider crawled out of his or her ear in the shower.