20 lice nesting in woman's eyelid

The medical staff at the hospital Haida, China, was shocked to pick out 20 white louse from the eyelids of a female patient. This person has itchy eyes and pus from the eyelids, but added that the only common infections.

The woman named Zhang, lived in Shandong, China. On 20/7, she was taken into hospital in Shenzhen Haida for cerebral infarction patients. A few days later, she often feels itchy and can ooze pus in the left eye. Initially Ms. Zhang does not care about this situation because I thought only common infections due to his disease. Until the child can see "there is something crawling on her mother's eyelids", the family invited an expert to visit and discover "something" is the microorganism.

According to the Health, Hospital nurses take tweezers Haida shocked to pick up every crumb of white on the patient's left eyelid. Covered eye specialist doctor Guisheng count all 20 children. "It's the white louse. Initially I thought they were some kind of parasitic organisms like insects, but when viewed through a microscope, we realized this creature belongs to lice," Dr. Sacks said. Then her eyes Zhang was sterile clean.

The doctor said parasitic mites such eyes is extremely rare, but Zhang's case is not isolated. Formerly a 30-year-old man was found in the eyes of parasitic tapeworms. The parasites, commonly known as helminths commonly found in raw pork, but they can also develop in the digestive systems of humans, in the muscles, brain and eyeballs.

Doctor Liu Zhuangchan said, the handling of the parasite in the eyelids is easy. However, if they get into the inside of the eyeball must be removed to pick up one by one. He said that after being picked patients lice, the discomfort will disappear, just drink more at drug is completely reversible.