Posted on 11/06/2019 7:44:52 AM PST by BenLurkin
A Nebraska woman has become the second known person to contract a rare infection which led to her pulling parasitic worms out of her eye. LiveScience, citing an Oct. 22 study posted in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, reports the woman believes she contracted the infection while on a trail run near the California coast last year.
The woman, 68, said she was in the Carmel Valley, about 160 miles south of San Francisco, in March 2018. She felt an irritation in her right eye. When she flushed it with tap water, a 1.3-centimeter-long roundworm came out. Then she spotted another, which she also removed.
The doctor who pulled the third worm sent it to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers determined the woman was infected with Thelazia gulosa. It's an infection that normally affects cattle and is carried by varieties of flies that ingest eye secretions.
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I’ll read this in a minute after I get my yogurt.
pardon me while I go scream into a pillow
Ewww. I would be barfing as I tried to pull out the worms.
Oh my goodness. Before breakfast, no less? That’s disgusting!
Definitely not clicking on this article’s link......
Figures, somebody just HAD to post a picture........
One of a LOOOOOOOOONG list of disgusting health issues that afflict cattle.
(spent a brief time in the farm meds biz)
Thelaziasis:
Nematodes in the genus Thelazia are primarily veterinary parasites, but may occasionally infect humans.
Adults reside in the conjunctival sac of the host where the females release larvae
The larvae are ingested by the face fly during feeding on tears and lacrimal secretions
In the digestive tract of the face fly, the larvae invade the fly's tissues
The fully developed larvae migrate to the fly’s mouth, where they remain until the fly feeds on the tears of the definitive host.
The larvae invade the conjunctival sac of the host, upon the fly’s feeding, and become adults
Humans may serve as aberrant hosts following exposure to an infected fly
Adults in the eye cause varying degrees of inflammation and lacrimmation accompanied by a foreign body sensation. In heavier infections, photophobia, epiphora, edema, corneal ulceration, and conjunctivitis may occur.
I Had to Look,,,
Oh Boy.
Reading in bed the other night, fresh bed linens, I saw a fly on the wall, and got up to try to deal with it.
It landed on my sleeping pillow (versus reading) and I was able to snag it, cleanly, with a paper towel.
No smearing, but I still changed the unused pillowcase, just in case the fly left “anything”.
Wednesday’s nightmare is brought to you by the letter “EYE”.
So, the lesson here is: don’t let flies feed on your face.
Most people don’t need to be told this.
I didn’t have enough to worry about today; thanks for sharing this.
I can believe it.
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