Doctor pulls inch-long cockroach from man's ear after it burrowed in while he slept and he failed to suck it out with a vacuum cleaner - Mr Hendrik Helmer from Darwin, Australia, woke up with pain in his right ear
- He realised something was in there and unsuccessfully tried to vacuum it out
- The pain escalated and so Mr Helmer rushed to seek medical attention
- A doctor pulled out an inch-long cockroach once it had died
By Ted Thornhill
PUBLISHED: 15:23 GMT, 10 January 2014 | UPDATED: 20:46 GMT, 10 January 20

Sales of ear plugs may well rocket as a result of one poor Australian’s ordeal with a cockroach.
Hendrik Helmer, from Darwin, revealed that he was recently forced to seek help from a doctor after a cockroach burrowed into his right ear while he was asleep – and refused to come out.
It even defied Mr Helmer’s vacuum cleaner.
Mr Helmer was alerted to the presence of the unwanted tenant by a sharp pain in his ear, which woke him up.
He told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that his initial worry was that a poisonous spider – of which there are many down under – had burrowed its way into his ear canal.
The pain rapidly got worse so Mr Helmer tried to suck out the critter with a vacuum cleaner.
When that failed to work his flatmate decided that it would be best to seek medical help.
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