Re: Chiggers

Adrian Arnold (arnold@bigb.win-uk.net)
Sat, 27 Jul 1996 20:10:33

To complicate this rather exotic thread a little further,
Fernando, it sounds a little as if you may have come across what
the Africans know as tumbu fly (it has other names too, some rather
less pleasant). This particular fly has a habit of laying eggs on
washing drying in the sun. If the washing is not ironed
thoroughly, when you put on the clothes, the eggs hatch and the
larvae burrow into the nearest flesh...

This is very painful and the best way to get it out is to cover
the area with vaseline to cut off its air supply, it then comes out
a little and can be grabbed with tweezers. I haven't suffered from
this but I know at least two people who have and neither of them
were at all happy with the situation:-0

Did you do a post mortem??? :-)

<SNIP>

>It took a few days and various painful attempts until I was
able to
>removed the bastard, twirling the tip of the tweezers inside the little
>hole! AAARRGGHH!! Not something I want to have to repeat for sure!
>
>
>Fernando Rivadavia
>Tokyo, Japan
>
Adrian Arnold