Woman went to doctors complaining of incessant clicking and rustling noise and is told a SPIDER was living in her ear

A woman who continued to hear clicking and rustling sounds had a spider crawling into her left ear.

The 64-year-old from Taiwan, who was not named, went to hospital after battling symptoms for four days, which became unbearable and left her unable to sleep.

Doctors soon found the tiny spider, which was about the size of a pin, along with the shedding skin next to it.

The arachnid was removed via a suction device. The woman had no damage to her ear canal or long-term effects.

A Taiwan woman, 64, has had a spider removed from her ear after it remained in her ear for four days

She heard constant rustling and clicking noises that prevented her from sleeping

The bizarre case was revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The spider was found in the woman’s ear in April this year, with the rustling sounds starting one morning after the woman woke up.

Small creatures occasionally get into the ears, accounting for about one in eight cases of foreign objects getting into the ears.

Others previously seen in the ear include small ants, cockroaches, moths and mosquitoes.

They can climb in through the outer ear canal and make their way to the eardrum (or eardrum), causing patients to hear sounds all the time.

Doctors often remove them using a device called a suction cannula, which can be placed in the ear to remove small objects.

Doctors say they are likely to be heard by patients because the skin around the eardrum is extremely sensitive.

But they say it’s best not to attempt to remove the insects, with most people suffering harm as a result of attempts to remove the creatures.

Dr. Stacey Ishman, an ear, nose and throat expert at the University of Wisconsin, told us NBC: ‘Usually the ear is completely fine.

“If there is any injury to the ear canal, it’s honestly more likely to be from people trying to get it out than from the insect itself.”

A safe way to get bugs out of the ear is to pour vegetable or olive oil into it, doctors say, which can cause the bug to drown or slide out.

Another method is to pour lidocaine or ethanol into the ear to kill the insect, preventing it from moving and damaging the ear.

But people with holes in their eardrums should avoid it, doctors say, because of the risk of eardrum damage.

It comes after a New Zealand man had a cockroach pulled out of his ear after feeling it for three days.

Zane Wedding, from Auckland, went to the doctor on Saturday with what he thought was water in his ear canal after a day of swimming.

He had his ear syringed, given antibiotics and then sent home, but decided to see an ear specialist on Monday because he still felt a ringing sensation.

The specialist realized that Wedding had a now dead cockroach in his ear and managed to remove the insect – and was given it as a souvenir from the patient.

“It made me physically sick,” Wedding told the NZ Herald, describing the ordeal.

The doctor was as shocked as he was, Mr. Wedding said, exclaiming “Oh my God” when she realized what he had stuck in his ear canal.