A Taiwanese woman was found by doctors to have four small sweat bees living inside her eye, the first such incident on the island.

The 28-year-old woman, identified only as Ms He, was pulling out weeds when the insects flew into her eyes.

Dr Hong Chi Ting of the Fooyin University Hospital told the BBC he was “shocked” when he pulled the 4mm insects out by their legs.
Ms He has now been discharged and is expected to make a full recovery.

Sweat bees, also known as Halictidae, are attracted to sweat and sometimes land on people to imbibe perspiration. They also drink tears for their high protein content, according to a study by the Kansas Entomological Society.

‘They were all alive’

Ms He was weeding around her relatives’ graves when the insects flew into her left eye.
She was visiting the grave as part of the annual Chinese Qing Ming tomb-sweeping festival, which is traditionally observed by sprucing up loved ones’ graves.

When a gust of wind blew into her eyes she assumed it was dirt that had entered, she told reporters.

But hours later, her eyes were still swollen and in pain, leading her to seek medical help at the hospital in southern Taiwan.

“She couldn’t completely close her eyes. I looked into the gap with a microscope and saw something black that looked like an insect leg,” Dr Hong, an ophthalmology professor at the hospital told the BBC.

“I grabbed the leg and very slowly took one out, then I saw another one, and another and another. They were still intact and all alive.”
Pictures of the bees were shown on Taiwanese TV.

Dr Hong added that the bees could have been blown inside her eye by a gust of wind and found themselves stuck inside.

“These bees don’t usually attack people but they like drinking sweat, hence their name,” he said.

Dr Hong added that Ms He was “lucky” that she did not rub her eyes while the bees were inside.

“She was wearing contact lenses so she didn’t dare to rub her eyes in case she broke the lens. If she did she could have induced the bees to produce venom… she could have gone blind.

But what’s happened to the bees?

“They are still alive, they’ve been sent as specimens to another organisation and will be studied,” said Dr Hong. “This is the first time in Taiwan we’ve seen something like this.”

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There’s nothing we won’t see .

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Strange

Na waoooo

Hmmmm

na photoshop

Blood of Dino melaye

So some ailment can be caused by something preposterous.
That's an hospital. A good doctor did a good job. If it is here, we say it is beyond human intervention.

I can never forget being stung by bees not to talk of bees in the eye .dayuuum!!!

Edo flyers dey learn for here.

Hashu win bayasha horrrn
Niyi laharati bou vashi born
Dis dia language ehn
U go feel say dem wan swear put for u

honey eye

Op how could you have read this story and still come up with such a misleading topic?

How the fvck is this even possible?

Next time

Chaiii... Eye Bee

her village people wanted to have one over her

abeg who get the English version

Water already coming out of my eye as I read this

How the bees got there and not crushed to death when she blinked ?

Shhhhhh

Mheen

TOPCRUISE:
That's an hospital. A good doctor did a good job. If it is here, we say it is beyond human intervention

Stop being so negative about your country

BlackAfrican:



Stop being so negative about your country

It is because you don't listen to the news.

She shud tank her Star for that contact lens that prevented her from scratching. If not, she wud have gone blind.

What if the woman has been collecting rent from the bees?

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