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27 Contact Lenses Are Found in Woman’s Eye, Doctors Report
By NIRAJ CHOKSHIJULY 17, 2017
For years, she had assumed that the strange sensation in her right eye was just a part of a changing body, nothing worth troubling over.
Fortunately for the unidentified 67-year-old woman, doctors preparing her for routine cataract surgery last November discovered the source and removed it. Unfortunately for the squeamish, the cause was the stuff of nightmares: The woman’s eye had become home to a hard, bluish mass of nearly 30 contact lenses held together by mucus.
The lump the medical team discovered was composed of 17 contact lenses, they reported this month in BMJ, a medical journal. On further examination, they found 10 more...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/health/contact-lenses-stuck-eye.html
By NIRAJ CHOKSHIJULY 17, 2017
For years, she had assumed that the strange sensation in her right eye was just a part of a changing body, nothing worth troubling over.
Fortunately for the unidentified 67-year-old woman, doctors preparing her for routine cataract surgery last November discovered the source and removed it. Unfortunately for the squeamish, the cause was the stuff of nightmares: The woman’s eye had become home to a hard, bluish mass of nearly 30 contact lenses held together by mucus.
The lump the medical team discovered was composed of 17 contact lenses, they reported this month in BMJ, a medical journal. On further examination, they found 10 more...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/health/contact-lenses-stuck-eye.html