Four bees decide to make a woman’s eye their new home

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What would typically come to your mind when asked where are bees found in a beehive either man made or naturally by the bee’s but what is I told you bees can be found I the most bizarre places and that includes in the insides of your eye.

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The 29-year-old woman had no idea why her eye was swollen shut. She was in unbearable pain and could not stop tearing up. The Taiwanese woman said she was confused why what she thought was an infection kept getting worse.

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But when the woman, identified by her surname He, received treatment at Fooyin University Hospital in Taiwan, doctors didn’t find a bacterial infection. While looking at He’s eyes through a microscope, Hung Chi-ting, the hospital’s head of ophthalmology, witnessed something he hadn’t seen before.

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Insect legs were wiggling from one of her eye sockets. He yanked out a small bee, known as Halictidae or a “sweat bee.” And it was alive. The doctor, however, wasn’t done. Soon he extracted a second sweat bee. And a third. And, finally, a fourth bee was pulled from the woman’s eyelid.

Craving salt, the bees had been feeding off He’s tears, the doctor said at a news conference last week, later describing the odd medical diagnosis as a “world first.” The insects had made a new home inside the woman’s eyelid – that is, until they were all successfully removed alive.

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“I saw something that looked like insect legs, so I pulled them out under a microscope slowly, and one at a time without damaging their bodies,” Hung said, according to Business Insider Singapore.

So, how did sweat bees end up camping out inside a 29-year-old woman’s eye? He suspects it all started the previous day. As He recounted in the news conference, she was taking part in the Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day.

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“I was visiting and tidying a relative’s grave with my family,” He recently told reporters. “I was squatting down and pulling out weeds.”

As CTS News reported, He said she felt something get in her eye. Thinking it was only dirt, she cleaned her eye out with water and did not rub her eyes much for the rest of the day. She didn’t think much of it until her eyes began to swell up that night and she experienced a stinging pain that made her tear up.

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At the hospital the following day, when Hung discovered that the sweat bees were feasting on He’s tears, the doctor was relieved that the 29-year-old, who wore contacts, had not rubbed her eyes excessively when the pain worsened, Hung said. If she had, it could have worsened her inflamed cornea or potentially led to blindness.

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