Mother Who Popped Bizarre Growth On Her Son's Leg Is Horrified To Find A SEA SNAIL Inside

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Rachel Franklin has spoken of her horror when she popped a giant growth on her seven-year-old son Paul's (centre) knee and discovered a black sea snail inside.

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Recalling the incident, she said she had previously visited the doctor, who said the growth was a staph infection, prescribed antibiotics and told her not to pop it.

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But later i realised it wasn't a rock. It has whirls on it.

‘I turn it over and I think - I might have laughed out loud. I said, "Paul. This is a snail. It's a freaking snail."'

While many would be disgusted at having a mollusc inside their body, Paul simply said it was ‘cool,' his mother added.

The snail had been growing in the tissue above Paul's knee, with pus and black-looking tissue emerging as the body's immune system detected a foreign invader.

The programme reconstructs the moment, in 2013, when the snail was discovered.

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Biologist Dan Riskin explained that littorina scutulata snails can survive for weeks in different temperatures and salt levels. The tissue below the skin in the body mirrors these harsh conditions, he said.