This parasitic infestation is called cutaneous myiasis.ĭr Sinuff breaks down what causes this parasitic infestation, how to avoid the tumbu fly and what to do when you get infested. The larvae of the tumbu fly are parasitic and when they get under the skin of mammals – including humans – they can live there until they hatch into maggots. The tumbu fly is also commonly known as the mango, putsi or skin maggot fly. We spoke to Dr Syama Sinuff, a Consultant Paediatrician at the Aga Khan University Hospital, who explained how live maggots can end up inside a human being. The Standard Explainer desk decided to check the claim that maggots can live in a human who is alive.

The doctor eventually told me about the tumbu fly…” read her post. And the doctor placed him on antibiotics, my son was able to have a restful sleep compared to the past 4 days. So the doctor advised I pressed (sic) all of them which I did. It was already about 6pm, we couldn’t go to the hospital. I called my husband and also called the doctor. Lo and behold when I pressed it, a live maggot came out! On the third day, as I got from work, I checked the hand and saw that the boil had opened (sic). His teachers also claimed that he usually shouts “my head, my head” in school.

Sometimes my son will be shouting “his head, his head” or “his leg”, I assumed it was aches that the boil was giving him (sic) and I gave him just (sic) paracetamol. His doctor recommended an antibiotic cream….

They were so small I assumed they are slight infections and would go. “I noticed my son had four boils, one on his head, his chest, his leg and his fingers.

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