Woman showers with contact lenses – loses her eye – health

A dangerous amoeba got under the woman’s contact lens while she was showering and ate her left eye, requiring it to be removed.

“Sometimes I have problems because I can’t see properly on the left side,” Marie Mason, 54, told the South West News Service. Mason who is now her left Eye first realized something was wrong in 2015 after feeling something was permanently stuck to her cornea. From then on her eyesight deteriorated, she sought help from an optometrist. However, he referred her to a doctor to see what was going on.

The medics discovered that Mason’s eye was infected with Acanthamoeba keratitis — a rare but infectious microorganism that can lead to vision loss, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

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Eye removal as a last option

Mason showered with hers reusable contact lenses, when the amoeba got between the lens and her eye. Over time, the organism fed on Masons Eye, causing her eyesight to deteriorate drastically. After it failed to capture the intruder with various medication and multiple corneal transplants, she had no choice but to have her eye removed.

To relieve her symptoms, the patient had to endure a grueling drug regimen and frequent hospital visits. “There were a lot of hospital visits, a lot of eye drops, a lot The operation and procedures and a lot of pain”. She had to go to the hospital up to three times a week to have her eye examined. The 54-year-old grandmother finally gave up her job as a kitchen hand because “I would have had as many times as I had to go to the hospital couldn’t work because it wasn’t worth it anyway,” Mason said.

Despite the obstacles, Mason has managed to lead a reasonably normal life – although her limited vision hinders everyday tasks. She is using her eye condition to persuade contact lens manufacturers to put contamination warnings on their products. “contact lenses wearing is absolutely fine, but you just have to be careful. I just don’t want anyone else to go through the same thing.”

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Not the first

Mason isn’t the first to lose her sight from Acanthamoeba keratitis. In a similar case in 2019, a 41-year-old woman went blind in the UK in her left eye after contracting the parasite from swimming and showering with contact lenses. In view of the frequent infections, scientists warn of the dangers of long-term wearing of contact lenses. A recent study British scientists have found that wearers of reusable contact lenses are almost four times more likely to develop a blindness-causing corneal infection than wearers of disposable lenses.

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