While an infection in the eye is irritating sufficient, think about a bug becoming stuck inside your eye for 9 hours. That is specifically what occurred with a 6-year-old in the US just after a bug hit her on the face. Her mother, Kris Monk, later shared the small girl’s ordeal along with the photographs of the dead beetle that was stuck inside her daughter’s eye.
“Around 5 pm April 28, 2020, a bug hit my 6-year-old daughter in the face there was a small impact mark near her tear duct, nothing else visible around or in her eye. We rinsed her eye and decided to keep checking it. She complained a few times that her eye was ‘tickley’,” she started her post, that later went viral.
However, later that evening at about 1.30 am, Monk’s daughter complained of her burning sensation in her eye. She was rushed to hospital. “There was some redness and a small lump above her tear duct, checking under her eyelid revealed a black thing that was moving around. We took her straight to the hospital. When we arrived there her eye was starting to pus (pictures) at 3 am the bug came out with a rush of pus,” study the post.
According to Monk’s post, the bug, which her daughter named “Todd”, had gotten “lodged under her eyelid” and had “crawled back along with her eyeball” even though attempting to escape (the tickling). While it took about nine hours for the insect to die, it was lastly washed out from the girl’s eye.
“The kid is fine, Todd left nothing behind, and she has a prescription for an antibiotic ointment to prevent infection and several follow-up appointments. The game of the night was ‘I spy with my buggy eye,’” Monk wrote even though concluding her post.
Since becoming shared on the internet, the post has gone viral and prompted a number of reactions with several calling the incident a “nightmare”.