Larvae ate almost eye teenager

This 16-year-old nearly blind when the parasite larvae start to feed his eye. Every year thousands of people become victims of these terrible creatures, penetrating into our body through wounds and eyes.

When the eyes of a teenager Kenneth Watson of the United States got a midge, the guy did not even suspicious. In the end, if you believe the doctors only through the mouth each year the average person "consumes" hundreds of insects, and that's okay because this is not happening. But two weeks later the young native of Arkansas Hardy felt his eyes that something is not right - the guy lost his sight.

Kenneth Mom did not believe, as man often pretended not to go to school. But most were Kenneth that does not help, because before his eyes now stood a large black spot, because of which almost nothing can be seen. That's when Watson panicked seriously, and forced the mother to go with him to the doctor.

It turned out that the same unfortunate gnat postponed in the right eye Kenneth egg. Two weeks later, the parasite became more active and began to eat tissue of the retina. " The larva of the parasite   literally chewing my eye, "- said Watson. Doctors diagnosed the patient ocular myiasis   - A parasitic disease from the group entomonozov, which was caused by the deposition of larvae.

Surgery is needed to extract the parasite of the eyeball, which has helped restore sight to Kenneth. Doctors stress that usually larvae of parasites   penetrate into our bodies via food or laundry, but Watson's case is hardly unique. Every year in America alone recorded more than 2 000 cases of myiasis in which parasites attack their victims through the eyes or open wounds.

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