Yingxiang Network News (reporter Yang Qiang, correspondent Hou Xiaolei) eyes are extremely sensitive and cannot tolerate sand. On October 24, the ophthalmology department of Ruzhou People's Hospital received a patient with insects hidden in her eyes, and Ms. Guo, who lives in the Horse Temple in Qiling Township, recently had itchy right eye, redness, swelling and tears.
Ms. Guo said that at first she did not take it seriously, and she really couldn't bear it before she went to the ophthalmology department of Ruzhou People's Hospital accompanied by her family. Under the slit lamp, under the leadership of Wang Lin, director of ophthalmology, doctor Tian Shichang opened Ms. Guo's right eyelid and found that there were multiple white fine linear swimming bodies parasitic in the conjunctival sac, and immediately gave surface anesthesia. "When you take them out with tweezers, you can still see them moving." Wang Lin said. The doctor removed more than 10 worms from Ms. Guo's eyes, all of which were more than 5 mm long.
According to Ms. Guo's recollection, when riding the tram a few days ago, she felt a bug fly into her eyes, but she didn't care at the time, but just rubbed it out with her hands and didn't do anything about it. Soon, I felt itchy and red in my eyes, and I came to the hospital after the eye drops at home were ineffective.
Wang Lin, director of the Department of Ophthalmology of Ruzhou People's Hospital, introduced: This insect is called "conjunctival sucking nematode", also called "Oriental nematode", a zoonotic parasitic disease. Its main transmission route is Okada's eye-circumferential fly (this fly is a fruit fly), when Okada's eye-circumferential fly sucks on human eyes and animal eyes, it will release larvae parasitizing human and animal eyes. Animals infected with this sucking nematode are dogs and cats as the main source of infection, of which dogs are the most common. If dogs and cats are infected, people may also be infected after they have contacted the secretions of the dogs' and cats' eyes and then touched their own eyes.
The main clinical symptoms of infected patients include foreign body sensation in the eye, itchy photophobia, pain, lacrimation, increased ocular secretions, eyelid puffiness, conjunctival hyperemia, increased intraocular pressure, decreased vision, white fluid exudation at the macula, a slight leakage of retinal vessels, acute optic nerve retinitis, etc. Severe patients can cause loss of ocular function, secondary glaucoma or cause vesicular corneal lesions leading to blindness. If you feel that your eyes are inexplicably itchy, you should go to the ophthalmologist in time for examination. This parasite is usually hidden, without eyelid openers, slit lamps and other professional ophthalmic equipment, it is unlikely to be seen.
Families with cats, dogs, rabbits and other pets should regularly bathe and deworm pets; pay attention to personal hygiene, wash their hands in time after contact with pets, and do a good job of preventing flies; if there are symptoms such as itchy eyes and foreign body sensation, they should be diagnosed as soon as possible.
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