- Daniela Liverani discovered head of a gigantic leech poking from her nose
- She had thought lump was congealed blood caused by a motorbike crash
- The graduate tried to blow the leech out, and grab it with her fingersÂ
- Eventually it was removed by medics who prised open her nostrilsÂ
- The creature was roughly as long as a forefinger and as fat as a thumb
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A backpacker who suffered from persistent nosebleeds was horrified to discover they were caused by a three-inch-long leech which had been living up her nose for a month.
Daniela Liverani had been travelling around south-east Asia when she was involved in a motorbike crash.
She had thought that a lump poking from the bottom of her nose was congealed blood from a burst blood vessel after the accident.Â
But just days after returning home to Edinburgh she was disgusted to find that it was the head of a huge leech which had set up camp in her nostril.
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Daniela Liverani had been travelling around south-east Asia when she was involved in a motorbike crash. She was horrified to discover her nosebleeds were caused by a three-inch-long leech up her nose
After first trying to blow the leech out, and grab it with her fingers, the graduate, 24, was rushed to AE to have the creature removed with forceps and tweezers.
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Miss Liverani, originally from Glasgow, said: ‘Two weeks before I came home from Asia, I started having nosebleeds but I’d fallen off a motorbike so thought I’d burst a blood vessel.
‘After I got home, the nosebleeds stopped and I started seeing something sticking out of my nostril. I just thought it was congealed blood from the nosebleeds.
‘I tried to blow him out and grab him but I couldn’t get a grip of him before he retreated back up my nose.
Miss Liverani with the leech that lived up her nose. After first trying to blow the leech out, and grab it with her fingers, the graduate, 24, was rushed to AE to have the huge creature removed with forceps and tweezers
‘When I was in the shower, he would come right out as far as my bottom lip and I could see him sticking out the bottom of my nose.
‘So when that happened, I jumped out of the shower to look really closely in the mirror and I saw ridges on him. That’s when I realised he was an animal.
‘My friend Jenny and I called NHS 24 and were told to get to accident and emergency as soon as possible.’Â
The graduate said: ‘He had been curled up in a big ball, using my nostril as a little nest, so I called him Mr Curly. At one point, I could feel him up at my eyebrow’
She was whisked into a treatment room where a nurse and doctor examined her nose using a torch, forceps and tweezers.
The doctor used a nose forceps to prise open her nostrils really wide while a nurse and her friend pinned her to the bed.
Miss Liverani said: ‘It was agony – whenever the doctor grabbed him, I could feel the leech tugging at the inside of my nose.
‘Then all of a sudden, after half an hour, the pain stopped and the doctor had the leech in the tweezers.
‘He was about as long as my forefinger and as fat as my thumb.
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