[hahamysock]

edit) i'm sure it's really rare, since there isn't a huge uproar about it on the news and all, & rarely anyone knows about it. but you can never be too safe!

my friend showed me this picture.
it's a type of parasite that grows if you don't clean your contact lenses well.
it's hard to kill, even with the cleaning solution.
they live and grow off of that gooey residue on the lenses.

so please be careful.

edit: not b/c of contacts, nvm!
thank you, aaandy!





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gosh. makes me sick to the stomach.

[little lady]

OOOoooooMMMguuuuhh

barf times 1000000

ahhh jinguh ruh wuh

[SatinDoll]

OH MY!!!!!!! >_<
AND IM WEARING CONTACTS RIGHT NOW TOO!!
AHHHH


p.s. your warnings remind me of a horror flick ...
ya know...when the music slowly....but surely builds up
ahhhh
*goosebumps*

[jinhee]

can't see the picture...

edit:

okay, i can see it now.


holy CRAP. how do you know if you have that?? i don't wear contacts anymore but when i used to, i didn't clean them all that well... i just put them in the cleaning solution at night. Are there symptoms? what happens if that thing is growing in me and i don't even KNOW about it??!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[choism]

if u cant clean with the solution, how else do u clean?

and ya..i cant see pic either

EDIT:
I SEE PICTURE!
HAHAHHAH...o sick. thats a 19 MM WORM INSIDE AN EYEBALL
...im gonna take my contacts out right now.

[heineken.]

I was ready to look at the picture but the warnings scared me off but I'll take your word

[hahamysock]

I was ready to look at the picture but the warnings scared me off but I'll take your word

oh, sorry. heh, it's actually not that gross imo, but others might be really sensitive to pictures like that, so yeah. ^^;; plenty of warnings are necessary in this case. lol

if u cant clean with the solution, how else do u clean?

and ya..i cant see pic either

idk. =/
i don't wear contacts.

but my friend runs hers under extremely hot water sometimes.

but i was thinking that it would melt it. idk.

[choism]

can't see the picture...

edit:

okay, i can see it now.
holy CRAP. how do you know if you have that?? i don't wear contacts anymore but when i used to, i didn't clean them all that well... i just put them in the cleaning solution at night. Are there symptoms? what happens if that thing is growing in me and i don't even KNOW about it??!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if u look at the first picture when the patient's eye is closed, u could see a distinct bump in the lower part of her eye. i think that's where the worm lives =).

hahaha...man, this is crazy. i just got contacts recently too O.o

[qquinto]

holy crap.
thank god i'm too lazy to wear my contacts!

[Cin De]

wow! EW >O<!!!!

yet cool @_@

[babygirl___TOOgrimey*]

OMFG...eww!

[pukes]

My dumbass couldn't HELP but look!



--Taylor.

[Srey Mao]

OMFGOMFGOMFGOMFG!!!! omg im gonna go kill myself. that was scary. hahahaha i was tempted to see!! i didnt wanna!!! ahhhh!

[Ur_Destiny]

wow...that's amazing how something like that could grow in an eye. Is that actually caused by dirty contact lenses? That's kinda hard to believe. Thank God I have perfect vision!

[flyaway]

^ yeah it is hard to believe
how can a bug that big grow in ur eye?
uhmmmmmmmmm

[J E W E L Z *]

EW EW EW EW EW EW EWWWWWWWW

so disgusting. i'm never wearing colored contacts EVER agian. cuz im an unlucky person and that could happen to me!

[aaandy]

Actually that's not because of contacts. I saw the actual news article a while back, can't remember exactly what caused it but I'll look it up.

EDIT:: IT WAS NOT BECAUSE OF "DIRTY CONTACT LENSES"

Read this article.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-eye-worm3.htm

Bizarre as it may seem, the preceding photos are authentic, though the same cannot be said of the accompanying narrative, which is a fabrication.

We don't know who assembled the emailed collage, but after a painstaking search we did find the source of the individual images, an article entitled "Anterior Orbital Myiasis Caused by Human Botfly," published in the July 2000 number of the Archives of Ophthalmology, a journal of the American Medical Association.

"Myiasis" is the medical term for a maggot (fly larva) infestation of a living body. In this case, the patient was a 5-year-old boy treated by U.S. Air Force surgeons in a rural area of the Republic of Honduras. "The respiratory pore of a late-stage larva of the human botfly (Dermatobia hominis) was located in the anterior orbit," says the article abstract. "The larva was gently removed under general anesthesia through a small incision in the conjunctiva." The patient was apparently none the worse for wear.

It would appear the text of this article was not consulted when the email tale was composed. Neither "bad dust" nor excessive eye rubbing were cited as causes of the infestation in the 5-year-old patient. According to entomologists, the human botfly lays its eggs on the bodies of other insects (such as mosquitoes), which then transfer the eggs to animal or human hosts by direct contact. When a botfly egg hatches, the larva burrows into the host's skin head-first and begins feeding.

This nasty creature is found mainly in Central and South America, but there are other species of flies known to responsible for cases of myiasis in North America, mainly blowflies. According to an epidemiological study conducted in 2000, most instances of myiasis acquired in the United States are the result of blowflies laying their eggs in pre-existing wounds.

None of which is quite as terrifying as the claim that any one of us could end up with a worm in our eye simply by being exposed to too much dust, which helps explain why the true facts of the case aren't circulating with the photos. In folklore, the story's the thing — accuracy takes a back seat to emotional impact, or, as Jan Harold Brunvand succinctly puts it, "The truth never stands in the way of a good story."

[choism]

alright...just for some clarification in this issue before ppl start freaking out and mass dumping their contacts.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/bbkmag/15/eye.html

the article specifically states that those who clean their contacts with unhygenic procedures are usually at risk. it also specifically states that its caused by cleaning ur contacts with tap water and not the cleaning solution, which makes sense.

just to help out u ppl who are freakin out


EDIT:

here's another article
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/prarchive/contact.html

from the article: 10-15 ppl out of 100,000 contact are diagnosed with it. That's 0.001% of the population

[MsCHua]

is this seriously true?

[finding forever]

i've seen that picture before.. but i don't think it was caused by contact lenses..

but eek, i better becareful and less lazy now
i dont clean them somteimse.. just put them back in the little thingy

[chamii]

im suprised they din do something before it got that big XD