Doctors at the Children’s Hospital in Lima were surprised to discover the 17-year-old from Pozuzo had a 3-centimeter worm living in his left eye for a month.
In the awful video posted in YouTube, Dr. Carolina Marchena and her assistants used basil leaves to bait the creature out of the boy’s eye. Marchena holds the herb close to the boy’s tear duct and then proceed to pull it out with tweezers.
“Because of the size of the worm, it was impossible for it to come out completely on its own. It just stuck a little part out, which was its head," Marchena said of why she used tweezers.
It is believed that the worm found is a mosquito specie also known as human botfly. Botflies lay their eggs in human skin and body heat causes it to hatch leading to larvae development in the next eight weeks. “Basil leaves was a way of attracting the worm out and due to the smell [of the basil leave], the worm came out,” the doctor added. Even though botflies do not cause long-term harm for their hosts, Marchena and the doctors were afraid it could swell infection to the brain due to its proximity.
"The location of the worm from the lower lid, which was getting bigger, increased the risks, because the youth's tissue was swelling in an area close to the sinuses that's near the face's delicate triangle of death," she said.
Fortunately, the boy did not suffer any effect after the removal of the said worm. Love this article? Share it with your friends on Facebook And Follow Us on Twitter @lifestylegist FOLLOW US ON OUR BBM CHANNEL C002A9544 FOR LATEST GIST.
In the awful video posted in YouTube, Dr. Carolina Marchena and her assistants used basil leaves to bait the creature out of the boy’s eye. Marchena holds the herb close to the boy’s tear duct and then proceed to pull it out with tweezers.
“Because of the size of the worm, it was impossible for it to come out completely on its own. It just stuck a little part out, which was its head," Marchena said of why she used tweezers.
It is believed that the worm found is a mosquito specie also known as human botfly. Botflies lay their eggs in human skin and body heat causes it to hatch leading to larvae development in the next eight weeks. “Basil leaves was a way of attracting the worm out and due to the smell [of the basil leave], the worm came out,” the doctor added. Even though botflies do not cause long-term harm for their hosts, Marchena and the doctors were afraid it could swell infection to the brain due to its proximity.
"The location of the worm from the lower lid, which was getting bigger, increased the risks, because the youth's tissue was swelling in an area close to the sinuses that's near the face's delicate triangle of death," she said.
Fortunately, the boy did not suffer any effect after the removal of the said worm. Love this article? Share it with your friends on Facebook And Follow Us on Twitter @lifestylegist FOLLOW US ON OUR BBM CHANNEL C002A9544 FOR LATEST GIST.
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