2024-02-14 13:01:16
A female college student has hundreds of mites hiding in her right eye. (Image/Pixabay)
Poor vision is actually caused by mites. A 20-year-old female college student in Wuhan, mainland China, had been feeling eye discomfort recently. Unexpectedly, she decided to undergo myopia surgery. However, during the pre-operative examination, she was told that she had keratoconus and that her eyelashes and eyes were covered with hundreds of mites.
According to Jimu News, a female college student has been suffering from eye discomfort recently. In addition to feeling that her vision is getting worse, she often rubs her hands because of the discomfort. Therefore, she decided to undergo myopia surgery at the end of January. Unexpectedly, things developed far beyond beyond her expectation.
The doctor’s examination found that the visual acuity of the female college student’s left eye was 0.3, her right eye was almost blind, and there were “fat objects” at the roots of the eyelashes of both eyes. Among them, the openings of the meibomian glands (glands that secrete oil) were the most serious. After random testing, “8 of them were found.” There are 20 mites on my eyelashes”.
The doctor pointed out that the female college student had hundreds of mites in one eye, and the thickness of the cornea at its thinnest point was only one-fifth that of the normal left eye. It was speculated that the mite infection caused eye discomfort, which in turn led to eye rubbing. the result of. After comprehensively analyzing the causes, the doctor confirmed that the female college student suffered from “keratoconus of both eyes” and “demodex blepharitis of both eyes”.
The female college student underwent deep lamellar corneal transplantation and postoperative medication. The cornea of her right eye has returned to transparency, the graft is stable, and her vision has recovered. If you continue to receive relevant treatment, your vision is expected to further improve. Doctors said that keratoconus is a chronic hidden disease that has a high incidence rate in children and adolescents but is easily ignored. In severe cases, it can cause thinning and perforation of the cornea.
Doctors also remind that if your eyelids and eyelashes have symptoms such as dryness, itching, redness, swelling and pain, you should go to a professional eye clinic for examination as soon as possible.
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