{"id":4440,"date":"2019-04-17T21:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=243325"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:13","slug":"woman-suffers-severe-eye-pain-and-swelling-finds-out-she-has-4-live-bees-inside-her-eyelid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/woman-suffers-severe-eye-pain-and-swelling-finds-out-she-has-4-live-bees-inside-her-eyelid\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Suffers Severe Eye Pain And Swelling, Finds Out She Has 4 Live Bees Inside Her Eyelid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">If you\u2019re afraid of insects, you\u2019ll probably be super thankful you aren\u2019t this woman.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/doctors-find-four-bees-woman-eye-feeding-tears\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> reports that a young woman from Taiwan (identified only by her last name, He) visited her doctor after experiencing extreme pain in her eye while cleaning up a relative\u2019s grave site.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">What her doctor found was unheard of. While she was initially hospitalized with what doctors thought was cellulitis and keratitis, the woman actually had four bees living inside her eyelid.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The bees were apparently feasting on her tear ducts.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Doctors believe that the insects flew into Ms. He\u2019s eye while she was removing weeds from the grave. She assumed it was something more common, like dirt or sand. She tried to flush her eye out using water.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Thankfully, she didn\u2019t rub her eyes, as doctors at Fooyin University Hospital think that could have led to serious damage to the cornea, including possible blindness.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The four sweat bees were removed from her eyelid. Incredibly, <strong>all were still alive<\/strong> upon removal.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243327\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-four-bees-eye\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-243327 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sweat-bees-eye.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sweat-bees-eye.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sweat-bees-eye-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sweat-bees-eye-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sweat-bees-eye-768x402.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/Inside Edition<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cI 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,\u201d the doctor explained in a press conference, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/a-womans-eye-infection-turned-out-to-be-bees-living-in-her-eye-2019-4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider Singapore<\/a>.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Sweat bees don\u2019t typically attack humans unless pressed directly against their skin, but they are attracted to perspiration and lick it up to supplement their diet.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Thankfully, Ms. He will make a full recovery \u2014 and she has been advised by doctors to wear goggles the next time she goes to clean her relative\u2019s grave.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Watch the video to see more.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-four-bees-eye\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re afraid of insects, you\u2019ll probably be super thankful you aren\u2019t this woman.People reports that a young woman from Taiwan (identified only by her last name, He) visited her doctor after experiencing extreme pain in her eye while cleaning up a relative\u2019s grave site.What her doctor found was unheard of. 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