The 28-year-old woman, Ms. He belongs to Taiwan feeling irritation in her eyes and finally made the decision to seek medical attention for her eye pain. This action led to something straight out of a child's nightmare. She was found by doctors to have four small sweat bees living inside her eye, the first such incident on the island. The pain she experienced was caused by bees that were living in the inside of her swollen eyelids and dining her tears.
The incident began when Ms. He was pulling weeds from the gravesite of a family member. After feeling irritation in her eyes, she attempted to flush them out using water, thinking dirt had somehow entered them. Doing so increased the amount of pain He felt, so she decided to go to the hospital.
Dr Hong Chi Ting of the Fooyin University Hospital told on a report that he was "shocked" when he pulled the 4mm insects out by their legs.
Ms He has now been discharged and is expected to make a full recovery.
Sweat bees, also known as Halictidae, are attracted to sweat and sometimes land on people to imbibe perspiration. They also drink tears for their high protein content, according to a study by the Kansas Entomological Society.
'They were all alive'
"She couldn't completely close her eyes. I looked into the gap with a microscope and saw something black that looked like an insect leg," Dr Hong, an ophthalmology professor at the hospital told on a report.
"I grabbed the leg and very slowly took one out, then I saw another one, and another and another. They were still intact and all alive."
Dr Hong added that the bees could have been blown inside her eye by a gust of wind and found themselves stuck inside.
"These bees don't usually attack people but they like drinking sweat, hence their name," he said.
The bees are said to nest around graves and fallen trees, so it's possible He came in contact with them while pulling the weeds.
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