{"id":464,"date":"2008-09-07T04:07:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T20:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mysabah.com\/wordpress\/?p=464"},"modified":"2012-10-28T23:44:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T15:44:27","slug":"leech-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mysabah.com\/wordpress\/leech-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Leech Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In making of this blog, I had walked over 50KM of jungle trail but never bitten by a leech (surprise!). Personally I am quite afraid of leech, as if it is a slimmy monster that can crawl into my brain. Anyway, my passion on photography still makes me to explore area potentially lurked with army of leeches. One day I was taking photo in Botanical Garden (behind Liwagu Restaurant) of Kinabalu Park.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2008\/20080907.jpg\" alt=\"small stream\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I was busy shooting photo, I saw a leech crawling on the camera toward my eyes. Luckily I discovered it earlier, otherwise it would land on my eye. Quite a surprise coz I never expected to see leech in a garden where many people walking around. It is a small ground leech. I used a stick to relocate it to an open space for photo shooting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2008\/20080907_2.jpg\" alt=\"Leech bite\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ground leech sensed my body heat and came to me in joy. As you can see in the photo below, it is a very tiny leech. Then I had a &#8220;crazy&#8221; idea of donating some blood to it. My friends probably thought that I was nut. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2008\/20080907_3.jpg\" alt=\"Leech bite\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though leech scares me, I know it can do very very little harm to me. I decide to overcome my leech-phobia by letting it to bite me. I placed it on my arm. It crawled a bit then stopped. When I saw its head turned into pointy shape, I knew it was looking for sucking point.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2008\/20080907_4.jpg\" alt=\"Leech bite\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The leech bite was less painful than a mosquito bite. In fact, I didn&#8217;t feel it. I was curious how much blood it could take, so I put a 50 cent coin next to it for comparison. In 10 minutes, its body size doubled.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2008\/20080907_5.jpg\" alt=\"Leech bite\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After 15 minutes, its size tripled and showed no sign of quitting its dinner. I wanted to go for my dinner, so I just detached it with finger. It was very easy to be removed (probably it is small). Only a tiny wound left on my arm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2008\/20080907_6.jpg\" alt=\"Leech bite\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During blood sucking, the leech released a chemical that prevented my blood from clotting. The leech was gone, but my wound kept on bleeding for 2 hours. Imagine if you are bitten by 10 leeches, the mess they left behind will be quite a &#8220;scary&#8221; view, though it doesn&#8217;t hurt at all. I heard that the cigarette ash can stop the bleeding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2008\/20080907_7.jpg\" alt=\"Bleeding after leech bite\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this reduces my fear of leech by more than half. May be next time I can try Tiger Leech, which is about 15 times bigger than Ground Leech. If you think this is a big deal, try to <a href=\"http:\/\/dhillonapip.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/before-and-after-leech-cupping.html\">look at this guy, who tried leech 30+ times bigger than Ground Leech<\/a>! *me faint from fear*<\/p>\n<p><i><small>Photos taken in Kinabalu Park, Sabah, Malaysia Borneo<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In making of this blog, I had walked over 50KM of jungle trail but never bitten by a leech (surprise!). 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