Posted on 04/10/2019 8:58:35 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The 29-year-old woman had no idea why her eye was swollen shut. She was in unbearable pain and could not stop tearing up. The Taiwanese woman said she was confused about why an issue she thought was an infection kept getting worse, CTS News reported.
But when the woman, identified by her surname He, received treatment at Fooyin University Hospital in Taiwan, doctors didn’t find a bacterial infection. While looking at He’s eyes through a microscope, Hung Chi-ting, the hospital’s head of ophthalmology, witnessed something he hadn’t seen before.
Insect legs were wiggling from one of her eye sockets.
He yanked out a small bee, known as Halictidae, or a “sweat bee.” And it was alive.
The doctor wasn’t done. Soon he extracted a second sweat bee. And a third.
And, finally, a fourth bee was pulled from the woman’s eyelid.
Craving salt, the bees had been feeding off He’s tears, the doctor said at a news conference last week, later describing the odd medical diagnosis as a “world first.” The insects had made a new home under He’s eyelid — that is, until they were all removed alive.
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I had a gnat fly into my eye once and it got stuck between my lower lid and my eyeball. Took some minutes of tearing up and making sure it didn’t slide any further down before I was able to flush it out.
I can see one sweat bee getting in that way. Four? Incredible!
Sister visited Africa years ago, and would you not know it, had an Earwig crawl into her ear and stay.
You WINZ Teh Whole Interwebz for today!
I always heard that was just a myth.
Sister is gone, so cannot query her, just what she said. Had to have some African quack pull it out.
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Well I’m going back to trusting your sister now. It’s something I just heard once or twice. Condolences for her, by the way. She saw more of the world than I have.
“He” is her name. Not that she is necessarily a BLTshamwich, it’s Indonesian.
Motorcycle, no eye protection. Just a guess.
He’s on first.
That is simply unbee-lievable Bob!
“How many bees have you found in her eye?”
“Two. Oh, wait, there’s four.”
“Well, what is it? Two bees or not two bees? That’s the question.”
“Sure, understanding today’s complex world of the future is like having bees live in you head, but there they are.”
“Not once but 4 times.”
“Come on in...the waters fine!”
NO NO NO
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