The patient went to the hospital on time, otherwise she could lose her eye.
Doctors in Taiwan recorded a rare medical case: bees from the family of halictides (Halictidae) got into the eye of a 29-year-old girl, which fed on moisture from her tear ducts. This is reported by The Guardian.
The girl's name is not disclosed, only the surname is Hee (He). Insects got into her eye while she was tending a relative's grave. At this time, Khi felt something fly into her eye, but she could not take it out.
In the evening of the same day, the girl noticed that her eye began to swell. In addition, she felt an unpleasant tingling sensation inside, so she immediately went to the hospital at Fooyin University. The ophthalmologist Hung Chi-ting was very surprised at his discovery: there were four bees under the eyelid, each about four millimeters long. They ate moisture and salt from the girl's tears.
At first, the doctor saw something that looked like an insect's leg, he slowly and carefully pulled it and pulled out the bee without damaging it. He did the same with the others. The patient was diagnosed with cellulite (inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue) and severe corneal erosion.
Hong Qi-ting suggested that the contact lens helped: the girl did not rub her eyes so as not to damage it, otherwise it could only aggravate the situation. According to him, Hee asked for help on time, otherwise he would have had to remove her eyeball to save her life. He suggests that the bees got inside from a gust of wind, but could not get out of the trap, and later they were attracted by the protein contained in the tears. They don't usually attack people, but they like to drink sweat. All the bees survived.
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