Pain in one eye, goes to the hospital and finds 4 live bees

She has pain in one eye, goes to the hospital and finds 4 live bees

She thought it was just a bad infection, instead a young Taiwanese woman found herself at the center of a more unique than rare case. "The first in the world" have prepared to comment on the doctors who have taken care of her.

A bizarre case, sometimes disgusting but terribly true: a 29-year-old woman was pulling out some weeds near the grave of a relative when she felt something enter her eyeball. Assuming it was sand or dirt, she didn't worry too much and just cleaned her eye with water.

During the night, however, she began to feel a sharp pain under her eyelid and this prompted her to go to a hospital the next morning. Visiting her, Dr. Hung Chi-ting , director of the ophthalmology department of Fooyin University Hospital , discovered four insects 3 millimeters long that had taken "home" inside the young woman's eye.

She has pain in one eye, goes to the hospital and finds 4 live bees
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The patient could not completely close the eye," Dr. Chi-ting explained during a press conference. "Looking through the microscope, I noticed something black that reminded me of an insect's paw."

Carefully, the ophthalmologist managed to extract the four sweat bees in the girl's eye.

She has pain in one eye, goes to the hospital and finds 4 live bees
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The bees managed to survive inside the 29-year-old's eye by feeding on her tears. " Fortunately, the girl wore contact lenses and did not rub her eyes for fear of breaking them: if she did, the sweat bees could have produced poison and she would have risked blindness ."

What are sweat bees
Sweat bees, also known as halictids , are attracted to sweat and sometimes settle on people to absorb perspiration. They also drink tears due to their high protein content, according to a study by the Kansas Entomological Society .

Of generally green or blue appearance, if crushed they can sting