Spider in the ear: This woman thought to have water in her ear. The doctors pulled out a venomous and recluse brown spider.

Most people know what it's like to have water in your ear after a shower or a dip in the pool. But a Kansas City woman was horrified to learn that, in her case, this waterlogged feeling was actually caused by a venomous and recluse brown spider lodged in her ear canal.

Susie Torres told local Kansas City station KSHB that she thought she had water in her ear that would not go away. The medical assistant who first checked her ear seemed to be shocked and went to fetch more people. She then said: "I think you have an insect in there," Torres told KSHB.

Torres said that she had not panicked at that time, but shortly thereafter, the medical assistant had given her a reason worthy of the name that would pinch any one. who. "She came back and told me that it was a spider," Torres said.

Medical staff used tools to extract the spider. The doctors told Torres that it was a highly venomous disease brown recluse spider – which fortunately did not bite him.

"I never thought that they would crawl in the ear or in any part of your body," Torres said. She has no idea of ​​the origin of the spider, but she is now taking precautions to prevent other arachnids from getting buried in her ear.

"I went to put cotton balls in my ear last night, because I did not have ear plugs," she said. "I am rather terrified by spiders."

According to the CDC, the brown recluse is one of two venomous spiders found in the United States, along with black widows. "Spiders are generally not aggressive and most bites occur because a spider is trapped or inadvertently contacted," says the CDC. So Torres was lucky – she could have had a bite that would cause itching, pain and irritation, and in rare cases even death.

It was not so long ago, doctors found a spider that was spinning a canvas in the ear of a man in China, reports The Sun newspaper in the United Kingdom. The patient went to the doctor complaining of an "itchy feeling" inside his ear and the doctors saw the insect at the bottom of his canal. They took a video of the spider that was spinning on the web, which became viral in May.

Ear spiders have already made headlines before. In 2012, doctors in China found a spider that lived in the ear of a woman for 5 days. And in 2007, an Oregon boy who complained of a slight sound like "Rice Krispies" ended up having two spiders removed from his ear.