Woman bitten by cockroach suffers allergic reaction in Thailand

A Burmese woman suffered a serious allergic reaction to being bitten by a cockroach while she slept in Kanchanaburi province, in the central part of Thailand.

The 40 year old Burmese woman, Minor, woke with a start, nudging her sleeping husband saying she felt as if she had been bitten. He husband switched on the light to find a big cockroach scurrying from the bed to the toilet. Her brave husband chased and killed it and put it in a plastic bag.

Minor called the Khun Rattanawut Rescue Team telling them she had been bitten on the knee and felt pain all over her body, headaches, a skin rash, and felt dizzy. The team visited her house in the Tha Muang district of Kanchanaburi and provided first aid before taking her to the hospital.

One of the rescuers, Persia Jongtawan, posted a picture of the cockroach on Facebook with a caption that said, “Cockroach bite. Have never seen anything like this before.”

Minor recovered after spending one night at the hospital. She revealed the doctor gave her an injection and let her rest. She added she didn’t take any pills and didn’t need a follow-up appointment.

Minor admitted she still felt some pain in the wound but could go to work as normal and, bizarrely, said she was keeping the dead cockroach in a plastic bag to remember.

A professor from the Department of Agricultural Science from the Mahidol University, Kanchanaburi Campus, Chayanut Kaewmanee, said that the pest was an American cockroach, which was generally found in Thailand.

Chayanut reported that a cockroach will bite humans only if there are food remnants stuck on the skin or in the nails. She suggested anyone who gets bitten clean the wound with water to avoid infection from bacteria and germs from the cockroach.

SOURCE: Thairath