Jan. 13 (UPI) —<\/span> A New Zealand man who initially thought he had water trapped in his ear said the true cause of the blockage turned out to be something far more shocking — a live cockroach.<\/p>\n Zane Wedding, 40, of Auckland, said he went swimming at a local pool Friday and later felt the sensation of blockage in his ear.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n “I used some drops to clear it up and fell asleep on the couch later that night,” Wedding told CNN.<\/p>\n He said his ear still felt blocked the next day, so he went to see a doctor, who advised him to try using a hairdryer to dry up the water inside his ear canal.<\/p>\n Wedding said the feeling persisted, so he went to see an ear, nose and throat specialist on Monday.<\/p>\n He said the doctor expressed shock immediately upon looking inside his ear.<\/p>\n “She said: ‘I think you have an insect in your ear,'” Wedding told the New Zealand Herald.<\/p>\n Wedding said it took the doctor about five minutes to extract the cockroach.<\/p>\n “Every time she touched it I just imagined her squishing a cockroach into my eardrum, so I wasn’t the perfect patient,” he said.\n<\/p>\n Wedding said there was “instant relief” when the insect came out.<\/p>\n “I felt a pop as soon as the doctor pulled it away,” he said.<\/p>\n He said the encounter left him with lingering feelings of disgust.<\/p>\n “It still gives me the creeps. We’ve got the fumigator coming in on Friday,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zane Wedding, of Auckland, New Zealand,\u00a0initially thought he had water trapped in his ear, but later discovered a cockroach in his ear canal was causing the blockage. Photo by\u00a0Erik_Karits\/Pixabay.com Jan. 13 (UPI) — A New Zealand man who initially thought he had water trapped in his ear said the true cause of the blockage turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nZane Wedding, of Auckland, New Zealand,\u00a0initially thought he had water trapped in his ear, but later discovered a cockroach in his ear canal was causing the blockage. Photo by\u00a0Erik_Karits\/Pixabay.com<\/p>\n