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A small container shaped like a mouth guard is inserted into the mouth at bed time containing hundreds of ants. These special ants wander about the teeth and gums nibbling on plaque and tiny food items that breed bacteria. After they finish feeding a bell sounds and they return to their container to
relax.
Preening Shrimp
http://www.halfbake...a/Preening_20Shrimp
Ants, shrimp, whatever. [phoenix, Jun 30 2002]
thank gawd, according to this it is unlikely we swallow spiders at all
http://www.straight...bag/mspidereat.html
[po, Jun 30 2002]
Pest Control Trivia
http://www.haltpest...news/index0302.html
Scroll past the 146 Year-Old Poem [thumbwax, Jul 01 2002]
How about microscopic robots instead?
http://www.halfbake...idea/perfect_20hair
[mrthingy, Jul 01 2002]
Earwig folklore
http://thefolkloris...critters/earwig.htm
Mentions the 'Night Gallery' episode. Thankfully it's not true. [waugsqueke, Jul 02 2002]
Phase IV
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070531
makes me say "no" to this idea. [calum, Jul 02 2002]
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are you sure that they won't just gorge themselves silly and fall asleep on the job. what happens if an anteater or somesuch wanders along and tries to climb into your mouth? sounds risky to me ben. |
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This sounds extraordinarily unpleasant. But it's similar to the idea of putting maggots in wounds to eat all the dead tissue, and it's natural. How do you stop them from biting your tender gums, as they don't distinguish between live and dead tissue as do maggots? |
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Can you train them to do tugs of war with dental floss? |
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It's estimated an average of 70 insects, 10 spiders are ingested by humans over their lifetimes while sleeping. |
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its gone up, it was 5 last time I was told that. |
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clearly somebody somewhere skewed the average. |
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I'm going to go sleep in a plastic bubble now... |
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night night, sleep tight. don't let the spiders bite. |
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In west africa, there is a species of cocroach that lays its eggs inside the human ear canal while the victim is sleeping. The larvae eat their way into the soft tissue, causing deafness and brain damage.... No insects near me, please ..... |
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I am 85% deaf and hon't dave dain bramage |
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don't earwigs have a reputation for doing this as well? When I worked in ENT, a few centuries ago, we had a chap come in one night who had a moth fly in his ear while he was driving. we coaxed it out with an apple. |
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po, I'm a little confused. Whats a "moth fly" and how did you get the apple in his ear to get the fly out? |
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are you sitting comfortably? then I will begin. the moth flapped its wings and flew through the van window into the drivers ear. could not find its way out and flapped its wings angrily causing one hell of a racket in the poor man's head. it was the smell of the apple that lured it out. OK? |
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re: insects and smells. I saw a woman on TV yesterday that put one dab of beetle female pheromone on her shirt and sat in a field. within minutes she was covered foot to toe in interested little beetles. |
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So I guess that, for her, size doesn't matter? |
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science, mrthingy, science. you plonker! |
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8th, you saw that episode of "Night Gallery" too, hm? |
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Waugsqueke: It wasn't called "Night Gallery". It was a programme about parasites and entomology on (I think) BBC2 a few yeas ago. They showed quite a few peculiarly unpleasant creatures from around the world. Enough to make you go and live in a penthouse in the Hilton hotel and wipe evrything with Kleenex before you touch it. It put me off tropical environments for life. |
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What if one was to accidentally swallow all the little guys during the night? |
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You would have a little extra nutrition in your diet, that's all. Beats vitamins, eh? Ants are an accepted food in some parts. |
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