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In some cases, the only symptom is the worm obscuring the host's vision as a "floater". [13] Diagnosis is made by finding the adult worms in the eye or surrounding tissues. Human cases are treated by simply removing the worms. In canines, topical imidacloprid with moxidectin, [14] or milbemycin oxime (Interceptor) [15] have been recommended.
After a few weeks, her left eye started to feel irritated followed by a sensation of a foreign object. On the eighth day of her symptoms, she found and removed a small, translucent worm from her eye. She went to a local physician, who found and removed two more worms. These worms were sent to Northwest Pathology for analysis and identification.
For the treatment of human cases, removal of the worm is suggested. Topical treatment with cocaine or thiabendazole have also been reported to kill the worms in human cases. [8] Because most, if not all, species of Thelazia are spread by flies, sanitary practices which reduce the presence of flies will also reduce the spread of thelaziasis.
An Oregon woman found more than a dozen wiggling worms in her eye and pulled them out one-by-one after becoming the first known human case of a parasitic infection spread by flies.
Abby Beckley realized something was wrong in the summer of 2016 while working on a salmon fishing boat in Alaska.
The worms are transmitted by infected flies, which pass them to animals and potentially humans by landing near their eyes and feeding on their tears, according to the CDC. In serious cases, they ...
A French surgeon named Mongin tried but failed to remove a worm passing across a woman's eye. A few years later, in 1778, the surgeon François Guyot noted worms in the eyes of West African slaves on a French ship to America; he successfully removed a worm from one man's eye. [21]
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