Doctors reveal shocking reason behind denying treatment to man living with twitching eye
ZHENGZHOU, CHINA: In a disturbingly bizarre turn of events, a Chinese man is said to have an eyelid that is infested with a worm parasite! The man has been living with the moving worm in his eyelid ever since he was diagnosed and was recommended surgical removal as the only option. The diagnosis was made after the man, identified as Liu according to local media, had returned to his hometown after a year of working abroad. He claims that he has visited many doctors and asked them to help, but has not managed to find a single one willing to remove it.
It had begun in January when Liu had felt his eye twitch. He took a good look at his eye, hoping to see why it was twitching, and realized that it was a worm, crawling out of his skin and then turning back into his eyelid. He had shared a video of his eye on Douyin, the Chinese TikTok app, and had asked people for a consultation or if anyone knew someone that would treat him. In the video, the worm is seen wiggling through his eyelid, causing his eye to tremble.
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Medics suggest waiting it out
Yahoo! News reports that the worm was later identified as a parasite named Thelazia, a genus of nematode worm which is a parasite of the eyes and associated tissues of various mammal and bird hosts. While it seems as though surgical removal is the best course of action, medics seem to think that it may be risky. They have advised Liu to wait for the worm to come out all on his own, but the man does not want to wait and he refuses to give up hope of finding someone to remove it.
Nebraska woman finds cattle worm in her eye
This is not the only incident of worms taking shelter in people’s faces. A Nebraska woman ran through a swarm of flies during a holiday and ended up with a cattle worm lodged up her eye. The CDC released a report on the incident as well, stating, "This is only the 11th time a person has been infected by eye worms in North America… But what was really exciting is that it is a new species that has never infected people before. It's a cattle worm that somehow jumped into a human.”