A British woman could not believe that she has maggots inside her ear when she came back from her dream holiday from Peru.

Rochelle Harris did not pay much heed to the headaches that she started to develop during her flight back to the UK. The 27-year-old woman from Derby took them normally.

But she experienced severe pain down one side of her face and had started to hear strange scratching sounds in her head within hours. She went to sleep just to find her pillow soaked with fluid from her ear.

Her experiences are also featured in a documentary called `Bugs, Bites and Parasites' on Discovery Channel.

When she returned to the UK, she took her disorder seriously and went to the local Accident and Emergency department at the Royal Derby Hospital.

Rochelle said, "My Mum asked her, can you see what it is? and the doctor said If you don't mind I'd prefer to speak to the registrar before I tell you anything."

It was only after they pressurized the doctor that he told her that she had maggots in her ear.

After a long scan, the doctors found that there were eight of them living inside her. They had even laid eggs. She remembered that a fly had got inside her ear in Peru that she managed to shoo away but did not realize the harm it caused to her. fortunately no significant damage was done to her.