The statements in this article are based on reliable sources of information and are detailed at the end of the article
Do you have this little flying insect in your house that is the size of a grain of rice, like a miniature moth?
Always seen in the kitchen and toilet, lying on towels, on the floor, in short, everywhere.
It looks small, grabbed with a casual shot, and pinched to death with a pinch.
But these little flying insects don't seem to be there every day, there are always a lot of them flying in the house for a while, and there is a time when they don't see much of it.
Do you know what's the danger of this little bug? Shooting it to death can lead to the removal of the eyeball. Let's take a look at what's going on?
Tiny flying insects, resulting in the removal of the eyeball
In September 2018, when Mr. Wu, who lives in Shenzhen, was watching TV at home, he suddenly felt that his eyes were swollen and painful, and when he looked in the mirror, he found that his eyes were red, and his eye sockets were swollen and swelled, which made him rush to the nearest hospital and register for treatment.
After the doctor's inquiry, it turned out that when Mr. Wu was watching TV at home, he suddenly felt that there might be a small insect itching on his eyelids, so he slapped the small worm, and the worm was directly slapped to death, and he felt a foreign body sensation in his eyes, so Mr. Wu rubbed his eyes casually.
Mr. Wu saw that the insects were very small, and they were not mosquitoes or flies, nor did they have any juice to kill. He didn't care about watching TV anymore, and in less than 2 hours, his eyes were swollen and red.
The result of the doctor's diagnosis should be acute conjunctivitis, and he prescribed some anti-inflammatory eye drops, and asked him to go home and take them on time, and recheck them three days later.
But the next day, he felt that after getting up, his vision was blurred, and the eye that had slapped the insect could not see clearly, and he realized the seriousness and immediately went to a tertiary hospital to see a doctor.
After diagnosis, Mr. Wu's eye was equivalent to 500 degrees of myopia, and the intraocular pressure was more than twice that of ordinary people.
Mr. Wu is usually not short-sighted, and the sudden loss of eyesight can only be caused by the small flying insect that was photographed a few days ago.
The cornea was in a bad state, so the doctor prescribed eye drops for bacterial infection, anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics.
However, antibiotics did not work, so Mr. Wu was transferred to a professional eye hospital, where doctors found that Mr. Wu's eye had been corneally perforated and had been infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and he was hospitalized.
Regular spot eye drops every day. The doctor also conducted a multi-party consultation to save Mr. Wu's eyes as much as possible.
But after many days of treatment, the bacteria have been deeply infected, and drug treatment has not been able to remove the bacteria.
It may be infected to the brain through the eyes in the future, which is very dangerous at that time, and in order to save Mr. Wu's life, he can only perform eye enucleation surgery.
This small flying insect doesn't look at its size, in fact, it carries a lot of germs. If it flies to the eyes, it can cause conjunctivitis at mild level, and can cause corneal ulcers with Pseudomonas aeruginosa if it is severe.
If it flies to the body and happens to break the skin in that area, it may also cause bacteria infection on the skin or cause fly magiasis.
A centenarian lady with maggots on her face
Coincidentally, in October 2018, a tertiary hospital in Shandong accepted an elderly patient.
The 97-year-old lady recently felt itchy pain on her face, as if there were worms crawling, so her children took the old lady to the dermatology department of the hospital for treatment.
The doctor looked at the wriggling area on the face, and could not treat it with medicine or smear, so he took the old lady directly to the medical room for surgery. In the medical room, the doctor picked out dozens of maggots in the itchy places on the old man's face.
The maggots were numerous and entangled, and it took the doctor three or four hours to clean up dozens of maggots.
It turned out to be fly magiasis, and the doctor said that he had not seen anyone with this disease for more than ten years.
Generally, it is the worm that carries the eggs that crawls to the broken place of the person's skin that causes the disease.
It turned out that the old lady was already very old, but she was usually able to cook and live at home by herself.
Usually she walks around the yard on crutches, and the old lady's son and daughter come to take care of her three meals a day.
It may be that the old lady accidentally fell down when she was at home, and the pain of the old man is not as high as that of the young man, and he doesn't know if his face is rotten.
Because the old lady already had moles and large spots on her face, after it rotted, the scabs and dark spots merged together, and the children did not pay much attention to the old lady's face.
As a result, the eggs grew on the old lady's face for several months.
It wasn't until the old lady suddenly said that her face hurt that night, and she couldn't sleep because of the pain, that the children didn't realize that they were wrong. When I went to the hospital, I found out that I had maggots on my face.
One of the possible causes of fly magiasis is that the gnats crawl into the damaged areas of the human body, causing the eggs to enter the body and eventually hatch the eggs on the body.
What a bug is so powerful
In fact, this small flying insect is called a moth midge, also known as a butterfly fly.
They are small in size and generally multiply in places such as shallow pools or septic tanks where bacteria grow.
For example, in bathrooms, toilets, kitchens and other places where water pipes are bent and ravines are not easy to dry, they can become adults in about half a month, and they can fly everywhere in the house.
This small insect is not only dirty but also carries pathogenic bacteria, and it is really harmful if not handled properly.
How to avoid creating bugs
Since this little flying insect is so harmful, how can it be eradicated?
If the small flying insect has landed on the skin, try not to slap it to death, blow it away, and wipe the skin with alcohol or saline to rinse the skin.
Be sure not to rub your skin vigorously when you shoot to death, it is likely that the juice of the insect corpse carries the virus, and it is easy to get infected at this time.
Here are a few ways to cure it.
1. Do a good job of household hygiene, clean the dead corners of the bathroom and kitchen.
Waste should be thrown away within a few hours of being generated. Fruits and vegetables are purchased on demand and stored according to the standard to avoid not eating for a long time and rotting insects.
2. Flush toilets and sewers with boiling water regularly.
However, it is necessary to confirm in advance that your fake pipes can be flushed with hot water, but this method is generally kept for a short time.
3. Use pipeline dredging agent, open the floor drain and pour it directly. Since pipe dredging agents usually contain highly corrosive characteristics, code protect themselves after the tool is carried out in operation.
Fourth, install anti-leakage toilets and floor drains.
After cleaning the drain, install a drain that can put anti-water and anti-odor if possible. It can dredge stagnant water while preventing small flying insects from flying back to the ground from the pipe.
If there are already moths flying in the house, you must pay attention to it, clean it up, maintain hygiene, and prevent it from re-invading.
1. Shenzhen man shot dead eyelids on the worm and had to remove the eyeball.Shenzhen Evening News.2018-09-15
2. A 97-year-old lady in Shandong took out 60 worms from her face, which is called fly maggot disease!.Shandong Provincial Life Daily2018-10-08
3. "Clean up" the common small flying insects at home.Health News.2021-11-27