Nurse, There's a Spider in My Throat

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Thought I would share this from my journal reading today....

http://www.medscape.com/medscapetodayhome?src=nlpromo

-AS

editted--this older post quoted the whole article, which is a violation of copyrights.

Specializes in med/surg, day surgery, psych as a CNA.
I heard on a radio program that every person swallows up to 20 spiders a year in his/her sleep. They apparently crawl in and we chew them up and swallow them. I almost fainted when I heard this!!! :uhoh21:

UGH, I think I'm going to be sick.. :stone

"There was a nasty looking black spider attached under the fold of the vallucula at the epiglottis!"

Anybody care to offer up a nursing diagnosis for this?

Ineffective individual coping!

I heard on a radio program that every person swallows up to 20 spiders a year in his/her sleep. They apparently crawl in and we chew them up and swallow them. I almost fainted when I heard this!!! :uhoh21:

I chalk that one up to urban legend. It helps me sleep at night.

That stupid song used to traumatize me as a little girl. And the pictures in the pop-up book were terrifying! I used to freak out anytime there was a fly by my food, because I thought I would die if I swallowed it. I wonder why we teach that song to kids? Another strange one I used to love:

Nobody likes me everybody hates me

Guess I'll go eat worms

Long thin slimy ones short fat juicy ones

Itsy bitsy fuzzy wuzzy worms!

I loved "The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly" as a kid. Loved the illustrations - I'm not afraid of spiders though. I also loved "Jabberwocky".

Whenever my friend or I get to whining too much about our lives, we sing the "Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me" song. . . . . :) I've sung it to my kids too when they whine.

What about "The worms go in, the worms go out, the worms go in and out your snout. The little black bug with the beady eye, goes in your nose and out your eye. Your liver turns a mushy green and comes out looking like whipped cream" . . . . . . :chuckle

steph

It looks like this thread had more of a psychosocial focus than a pathophysiological one. Interesting. It seems that even the "little things" in life can be a source of such anxiety and fear.

-AS

I would have to look up the exact quote... but it is something like 80% of people fear spiders more than they do death....

signed: another individual scared of bugs of the eight leg variety!

A few years ago I saw some pictures taken during a patient upper endoscopy after he had been trying to siphon water from his water bed using as old garden hose. :uhoh3: He was sucking on the hose to get the flow of water started and inhaled an ant nest! The doctor who preformed the endo said they were crawling all over the place. :eek:

A few years ago I saw some pictures taken during a patient upper endoscopy after he had been trying to siphon water from his water bed using as old garden hose. :uhoh3: He was sucking on the hose to get the flow of water started and inhaled an ant nest! The doctor who preformed the endo said they were crawling all over the place. :eek:

OMG!!! I cannot imagine how those ants must have made him feel...crawling and biting his airway and esophagus....eek. :uhoh21:

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:sofahider :barf02: Barf-o-rama!

Specializes in LTC, Dementia, Acute care.

Guess there is another good reason to wear a sleep apnea mask.... no chewed up spiders in MY mouth. That is the nasties thing I have heard..... and how can they prove it!... Shudder

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I heard on a radio program that every person swallows up to 20 spiders a year in his/her sleep. They apparently crawl in and we chew them up and swallow them. I almost fainted when I heard this!!! :uhoh21:
Specializes in L & D.

You can find critters in almost any line of work...back in college (WAAAYY back) I worked at IHOP and used to have to chase cockroaches out of booths. The worst one was finding half a cockroach in a guy's omelette (no kidding). Needless to say, he was not charged for the extra protein...:p

Spiders aren't so bad. It's when a snake is in you that it's bad.

Specializes in Float.

Ya know..I kept seeing this thread name on the home page and I kept ignoring it and FINALLY I clicked on it... ewwww! lol

And Luv2banurse...you know you can't leave us in suspense like that! :p

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