A woman in north-east China made a harrowing discovery — at least twenty lice had taken up residence in her left eye. The tiny insects had taken over
her eyelashes and infiltrated underneath her eyelid. She reportedly
caught the lice during a previous extended stay at the hospital.
The woman was immediately taken to a specialist for treatment. “These lice were all white in color,” her physician, Dr. Bao said. “At
first I thought they were a parasitic bug, like mites or something
similar. Upon closer examination under a microscope, however, we
determined they were lice.”
Nurses sterilized the woman’s eye
and plucked the intruding insects out one-by-one with a pair of small
tweezers. Though this story may sound shocking, it isn’t the first case
of lice or other small insects nesting in or around a human eye.
Above: Lice infestation in human eyelashes.
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