Boy’s ‘brain-eating worm’ is an embarrassing accident

It was a literal tape worm.

A UK mom was relieved albeit embarrassed after discovering that her son s brain-eating worm was actually a harmless piece of tape. The ordeal occurred in November 2019 but she s just now going viral for detailing it in a Facebook post, Kennedy News reported.

I wasted the doctor s time, wrote Gemma Tyson, 39, along with a snap of the parasite that she yanked from her child s ear.

The mess began after the Bristol, England, resident s son Ashton, 10, came to her complaining about an itchy ear, per the post.

Initially thinking it was a big ball of wax, Tyson quickly realized something else was afoot after she yanked on the foreign body with tweezers and it kept coming out like a magician s silk streamer.

via nypost.com

I’m on the mom’s side. Apparent parasites emerging from your child’s ear are scary.