The patient has more than 42,000 followers on her TikTok account.
A user identified as Yuliana Gonzalez has viralized a video through her Tik Tok account where you can see that she has an inflamed eyelid. In this video you can see how they extract a worm from the eyelid of the patient’s eye.
The video quickly went viral when it was posted on social media and currently has more than 47 million views. It should be noted that the woman did not go to a health center to be treated and the corresponding treatment will be applied for this type of case.
According to what the patient commented in her video, she attributes the appearance of the worm on her eyelid to not wearing protective glasses while on a motorcycle. It is worth mentioning that a health professional identified as Paulina Ramirez has already analyzed the video carefully and has published a video on the same social network giving advice to Internet users for cases similar to these.
The doctor has commented in her video that the name of the disease is called ophthalmomiasis, which is caused by the infestation of larvae that flying flies put in some of the tissues of the human body.
They have been found in places close to the eyes such as the conjunctiva of the eyes, the eyelid and the orbit, also inside the eye such as in the anterior chamber or glass.
@yulianagonzaleztoeste little friend in my eye ???? hahahaha♬ And How The Worm Is Killed aka How The Worm Is Killed – Sorcerers Band
What is ophthalmomyiasis?
According to the text “Ophthalmomiasis” written by Noriega Martínez, Justo Luis, Castillo Pérez, Alexeide de la C., Plasencia Salini, Raúl Humberto, Benítez Merino, María del Carmen, and Cuevas Ruiz, Judith published in the Cuban Journal of Ophthalmology , ophthalmomiasis is a rare disease, caused by arthropods; in this case by the adult fly. It is distributed by endemic geographic areas of the vector.
It is related to socioeconomic and environmental factors, with a predilection for both supposedly healthy and necrotic tissues. Its diagnosis is through the identification of the larvae, and its treatment is based on the removal of the worm.
Parasitic diseases, due to their frequency, fall within the group of infectious diseases with the highest prevalence worldwide, associated with the constant increase in their incidence. They constitute a serious health problem for many regions, especially those located in the sub-Saharan belt and Central South America.
The health risk posed by this disease is quite significant, especially in pediatric ages, where morbidity and mortality is quite high, depending on the degree of virulence of these microorganisms and the host’s immunity.
@the.retina.doctor There are different species of flies that can cause this infestation (invasion of a parasite within a host) by laying their eggs on human tissues. It is much more common for this to happen in animals, so hygiene of the same is super important. @Yuliana Gonzalez Tov #oftalmologia #oftalmomiasis #oftalmo #moggot ♬ original sound – Paulina Ramirez Neri
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