Woman finds three-inch leech in nose after South East Asia trip

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[QUOTE=Soret;46229604]Leaches aren't that bad, they help reduce excess blood with that stabilizing blood pressure levels, [B]usually they feel that the patient is normal they will detach, other then that they are harmless.[/B][/QUOTE]

lol leeches don't detach when they 'feel' you're healthy. They detach when they're full in the case of external leeches like the one that bit my ass, or when someone yanks it off in the case of internal leeches like the one the OP discusses. Though I have seen some external animal leeches of aquatic animals that seem to just stay attached to them for their entire lives. Regardless, they don't care about making you healthy. They're just a leech. That's not to say they can't have beneficial uses, it's just that making you well isn't something they care about. They just want lunch.

And they're not totally harmless, either. Like with anything that can drink blood, there's always the possibility of disease transmission. Especially if you're not careful with removing them and make them vomit into your wound which I probably did countless times in Vietnam without thinking uughghghughggh

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[QUOTE=Soret;46229604]Leaches aren't that bad, they help reduce excess blood with that stabilizing blood pressure levels, usually they feel that the patient is normal they will detach, other then that they are harmless.[/QUOTE]

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