The video spread showing an ophthalmologist removing 23 contact lenses from a patient’s eye social networks. The case took place in California, in the United States, and the images have already been reproduced more than 25 million times on TikTok.
The question everyone has been asking is: How did all these lenses get there?
Simple: According to Katrina Corteva, the doctor who performed the extraction, the patient forgot to remove the lenses before bed and put on a new pair the next day.
Credit: Reproduction / Instagram / California Eye AssociatesThe doctor removes a total of 23 lenses from the patient’s eye
Also, according to the doctor, the woman came to the consultation and said that she felt something in her eyes that she could not remove. Although her eyesight was blurry, the pain was what bothered her the most.
“My mind jumped to the possibilities that could be: a piece of broken contact lens, a scratch on the cornea, an infection, an eyelash or makeup residue. I’ll know for sure only when I had the exam,” the doctor said.
“At first, I used a yellow stain anesthetic to identify any scratches or foreign bodies. I couldn’t see anything on the cornea on the initial examination, so I started pulling out the lower and upper eyelid manually to see if there was anything on the upper or lower part of the eyelid. The basement. These are the deep corners of the eyes, like little eyelid bags, where things sometimes get stuck. I didn’t see much – just a little bit of mucus, which could be a normal response to irritation.”
The ophthalmologist also says she had to use an instrument called an blepharoscope that keeps the upper and lower eyelids open at the same time for an extended period of time, so she can use my hands freely to see what was going on.
“When I asked her to look down, I could see the edges of some lenses sticking together. When I took them out, I felt I could still see more and asked my assistant to take my phone to record the removal.”
The ophthalmologist also said that in nearly 20 years of practice, she had never seen anything like this before.
After the operation, the patient said she actually felt better and was directed with anti-inflammatory eye drops.
The doctor stressed the need to remove daily contact lenses from the eye every night. “These are light, fragile lenses that should not be worn for more than 24 hours,” he said.
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