Doctors extracted them alive from her tear duct.
The so-called ‘sweat bees’ had taken up residence inside her tear ducts, and were thriving.
The woman, identified only as Ms He, 28, went to hospital in Taiwan complaining of a swollen eye, and doctors were surprised to find the insects were the cause.She went into hospital thinking she had an infection Doctors at Fooyin University Hospital in Taiwan managed to extract all of them, saying it was a ‘world first’.
Head of ophthalmology Dr Hung Chi-ting told a press conference: ‘I saw something that looked like insect legs, so I pulled them out under a microscope slowly, and one at a time without damaging their bodies.’CTS News reported that the woman was pulling up weeds from a relative’s grave when she felt something go into her eye.
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