THIS video reveals the moment doctors discovered the horrifying truth behind a patient’s sore eye.
One 34-year-old man presented at an eye clinic in China, claiming that something had lodged in his eyeball.
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He said he felt as though there was a ‘foreign body’ and itching in his right eye.
Experts from Shantou’s Joint Shantou International Eye Center said that the man had no medical history and was a farmer living on a farm.
His eye was examined by slit-microscopy.
They found two live worms under the upper eyelid.
The shocking video shows the man with his eyelid open and tiny translucent worms sliding along his eyeball.
Experts administered topical anesthetic to the man and removed the worms with a fine forecep.
After removing the parasites, the man was sent to a parasitology lab for further examination.
They were later identified as Thelazia Callipaeda.
In 1910, these parasites were discovered in dogs in China. Since then, thousands of cases have been reported in medical literature.
They can be passed from one animal to another. Most parasites can be passed from one animal to another. A fly with the parasite will land on a cat or dog, and then it will pass on to the human owner.
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine the experts explained that they are a “parasitic worm that is carried and transmitted by drosophilid flies, feeds on eye secretions and deposits larvae in the eyes of the definitive host, typically a dog but occasionally a human.”
After a month the man had a follow up and he no longer had the sensation of a foreign body in his eye and has not reported a recurrence since then.
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