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ashling

(25,771 posts) Fri Nov 29, 2013, 09:47 PM Nov 2013

Dandelion Grows Inside Ear Canal Of Girl In China

When they say dandelions can grow anywhere, they mean it.

A doctor in Beijing removed a dandelion that was growing in the ear canal of a 16-month-old girl earlier this week, according to Shanghai Daily's translation of the Beijing Morning Post

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Dandelion Grows Inside Ear Canal Of Girl In China (Original Post) ashling Nov 2013 OP

When I was a child ... surrealAmerican Nov 2013 #1

Yick! tblue Nov 2013 #2

surrealAmerican

(11,362 posts)

1. When I was a child ...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Fri Nov 29, 2013, 11:33 PM

Nov 2013

... my grandmother had warned me that, if I didn't keep my ears clean, potatoes would grow in them. It never occurred to me this could actually happen.

Dandelions can have very long roots too - poor kid. I hope it didn't damage her hearing.

tblue

(16,350 posts)

2. Yick!

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Sat Nov 30, 2013, 12:02 AM

Nov 2013

Gives me the willies. Poor baby! Glad they found it.

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