Doctors removed more than 20 lice from woman’s eye

A woman got a nasty shock when she discovered that she had lice living in her eye.

Ms Zhang, from Shandong in north east China, started experiencing itching and a seeping discharge in her left eye.

She was initially unconcerned about her condition as she believed that she had an infection, reported People's Daily Online. 

It was only when her son saw things moving in her eyelid that she was taken to a specialist, who found the insects.

Ms Zhang had been admitted to Haida Hospital in Shandong province on July 20 for a cerebral infarction, a type of stroke.

When she experienced discomfort in her left eye, she thought it was an infection as a result of her illness.  

However, by July 22, Ms Zhang could no longer take the itching and asked her son to take a closer look.

Upon inspection, he exclaimed: 'Mum! There's stuff moving on your eyelid!'

The woman sought out an eye specialist for her extremely swollen and red left eye.

Eye specialist Dr Bao Guisheng found 20 'little worms' lying underneath the layer of white discharge in Ms Zhang's eye.

Dr Bao said: 'These lice were all white in colour.

'I thought they were some sort of a parasitic bug, like mites or something, but when we looked through a microscope, we saw that they were lice.'

Ms Zhang's eye was sterilized and nurses took the tiny critters out one by one with a pair of small tweezers.

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