Tap water may seem very harmless to many of us, but one woman from New Mexico had a different experience.
Kyra Smith, a woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, said her left eye went completely blind after the tap water she used to clean her contact lenses left her with an infection called keratitis. to acanthamoeba, which interrupted his sight. For six years, Smith had been an avid contact lens user, and it wasn’t unusual for her to reuse old lenses and wash them in contact solution every night, but something went horribly wrong. this time.
The 25 year old said that fateful day she had put her contacts on to go to work but noticed that there was a different feeling this time around.
“I had put my contacts on to go to work and I felt a popping sensation in my left eye but I didn’t think about it too much because it wasn’t painful, it was just kinda there. .” says Smith.
Smith said what started out as something seemingly insignificant later turned into a problem. “When I got home I took my contact lenses out and my eye was noticeably red but I had no pain or anything at the time. The next day I woke up and my eye was more red, and that night it was starting to hurt more, and that’s when I started to worry,” Smith said.
According to Smith, a dental office worker, she went to the eye doctor the next day, and although she was given eye drops, it didn’t help.
“I went back to the eye doctor, and he was looking at my eye through a microscope, and his exact words were ‘what is that? and that really scared me,” says Smith.
According to ophthalmologists, the tap water used by Smith may have caused bacteria to eat away at the cornea. During this time, doctors gave her strong medications, including antibiotics and antifungal drugs, to fight off the infection, to no avail. According to Smith, she is still blind in her left eye after a failed corneal transplant. The situation took a toll on her life, forcing her to quit her job and become largely dependent on her family. She hopes to undergo a second corneal transplant which will restore her sight.
Let this be a warning to all of us! Wash your hands and only use contact solution to clean your contacts.
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