a video A photo posted on Instagram on Wednesday showed a fed up father trying to pull a parasite out of his five-year-old son's hair with tweezers after returning from a summer holiday in Africa.
“Kari was complaining of pain on the top of her head, but it just looked like a small red bump,” her mother wrote in the video's caption. “The next day I had a white tip that looked like a pimple, but when I showed it to my guide and local doctor, no one knew what it was. By chance, I shared the photo with my girlfriend from back home. and her husband realized it was a boy. [sic] jump! It’s a bot fly!!?!?!!!”
The mother's girlfriend suggested that the pimples, which she believed were acne, might be bot flies, so her husband woke her son up to remove the parasites. He wrote that he urged him to do so. She warned that the video was “not for the faint of heart” and said it “contains bugs” in the caption. (Related: Skin-damaging parasitic infections on the rise in Southern states, CDC warns)
“Basically, six days ago, a fly bit Kali's head and laid an egg inside her skin. The egg then hatches and the larva continues to live inside the head until it's ready to crawl out on its own and fly away. I would have been there for about another 20 days until!!,” the mother wrote. She says, “It was late at night when her boyfriend called to let him know it was a possible fly, so she woke Garrett up, tweezers in hand, and said, “You're not going to believe this.'' Pimples are alive. I think I'll need surgery.”
The mother said her son hated “gross things” like fruit flies, and the father “went into full Papa Bear mode” to get rid of the “monster in the head” that his son was boasting about to his younger brother. he emphasized.
“Moral of the story: Travel isn't always rainbows and butterflies. Sometimes it's tweezers and flies,” the mother wrote.
