Dec 4, 2020 09:40 PM
(This post was last modified: Dec 4, 2020 09:53 PM by C C.)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/...r-eyeball/
EXCERPTS: There are precious few things that could truly make 2020 worse [...] But a rare bee sting right to the eyeball might be one of them. Doctors this week published an image of just such an uncommon ocular impaling...
The patient was a 22-year-old male who showed up at a hospital’s emergency department [...who...] had taken a bee sting about an hour earlier. Though the man had 20/20 vision in his right eye, he reported only being able to see hand movements close to his face with his left eye.
With a closer look (see here), the doctors reported seeing [...] a bee stinger still jutting out from his eyeball, surrounded by some eye gunk ... embedded in the man’s cornea ...that helps focus light. ... there’s a risk of the corneal tissue failing and becoming cloudy ... There’s also the possibility of secondary glaucoma, in which pressure inside the eye increases and causes optic nerve damage and vision loss.
The doctors gave the man some antibiotic eye drops and a local anesthetic before pulling the stinger out. They then thoroughly cleaned the puncture wound and closed it up with corneal sutures. Finally, they gave the man two weeks' worth of prescriptions [...] a three-month follow-up visit revealed that the man’s eye largely recovered. ... the man’s vision in his left eye was 20/40. (MORE - details)
EXCERPTS: There are precious few things that could truly make 2020 worse [...] But a rare bee sting right to the eyeball might be one of them. Doctors this week published an image of just such an uncommon ocular impaling...
The patient was a 22-year-old male who showed up at a hospital’s emergency department [...who...] had taken a bee sting about an hour earlier. Though the man had 20/20 vision in his right eye, he reported only being able to see hand movements close to his face with his left eye.
With a closer look (see here), the doctors reported seeing [...] a bee stinger still jutting out from his eyeball, surrounded by some eye gunk ... embedded in the man’s cornea ...that helps focus light. ... there’s a risk of the corneal tissue failing and becoming cloudy ... There’s also the possibility of secondary glaucoma, in which pressure inside the eye increases and causes optic nerve damage and vision loss.
The doctors gave the man some antibiotic eye drops and a local anesthetic before pulling the stinger out. They then thoroughly cleaned the puncture wound and closed it up with corneal sutures. Finally, they gave the man two weeks' worth of prescriptions [...] a three-month follow-up visit revealed that the man’s eye largely recovered. ... the man’s vision in his left eye was 20/40. (MORE - details)