Soā¦ No.
I think it will dissuade them. Iām almost dissuaded from coming back to boingboing for fear of more nose maggot articles.
āBasically, I just made that shit up to scare parents and kids away from grinding up candy and snorting it. Because, you know thatās such a rampant problem in this countryā.
Christ, what an asshole.
āWell, not smarties per se, but Iāve definitely seen it happen. Now stop asking questions or Iāll mark that youāre a troublemaker on your permanent record.ā
Well, that explains how I can get worms from eating boogers.
Now if I can only find a doctor to tell me how the funny face Iām making can get āstuck that wayā if one of my classmates hits me in the back while Iām making it.
It was grade school drug propaganda that convinced me that authority is not to be trusted, believed or respected.
So there is that.
Damnit, Jim, Iām an otorhinolaryngologist, not an entomologist! How the fuck do I know what maggots eat?
Yeah, we need some Nose Unicorn chasers.
So is he suggesting that flies routinely go up noses in search of places to lay eggs, or is he suggesting that maggots arise by spontaneous generation?
Itās gonna take a lot more than a couple maggots to ruin my fun.
While it might be unlikely to happen in kids who snort smarties, it does happen, and itās called nasal myiasis. A review of maggot infections in general:
āMyiasisā
Fabio Francesconia and Omar Lupi
Clin Microbiol Rev. 2012 January; 25(1): 79ā105.
doi: 10.1128/CMR.00010-11
Oh, I donāt think anyone is questioning the reality of myiasis. The sources on nasal myiasis cited in the paper you link are mostly in India, Brazil, and the like, places where fly species that are responsible for cutaneous myiasis are readily found; the risk factors for nasal myiasis, often caused by those same fly species, are chiefly things like leprosy and syphilis leading to secondary atrophic rhinitis. The only papers I could find involving myiasis attributable to fly species commonly found in New England involved a Danish patient with a broken nose and an elderly Korean patient in a coma. I have no trouble believing that bacteria or fungi could grow up there, especially in the presence of food; those are ubiquitous in the environment, and thereās plenty of air passing through the nose to carry spores. Talk of maggots, though, especially in the absence of published case studies, does little more than undermine the credibility of the sources. That said, if this isnāt a fiction, Iād love to read the case studies. Iām weird like that.
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