A Syrian man recently found out that his chronic runny nose, which he wrote off as a cold, was fluid leaking from his brain.
The unidentified 20-year-old started experiencing the runny nose, as well as headaches and seizures, six years earlier after sustaining a head injury in a car accident and refusing medical treatment, according to the Daily Mail.
After developing meningoencephalitis, a combination of meningitis and encephalitis that’s life-threatening, he was admitted to the hospital and placed in the intensive care unit, where an MRI revealed a fracture in his skull and an encephalocele — a condition in which the tissue covering the brain, and a portion of the brain itself, protrude through openings in the skull — had developed in his nasal cavity.
Happily, after undergoing surgery to put everything back in its proper place, the man is back home and the headaches, runny nose and seizures have stopped.