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The eye was stacked with contact lenses.
Warning: Some readers may find this content distressing.
When an American woman went for an eye exam, Dr. Katerina Kurteeva found a shocking surprise under her patient’s eyelid.
The eye was stacked with contact lenses.
Using a cotton swab, Kurteeva records herself fishing out one contact lens after another. Then another, and another and another.
There were 23 contacts in the woman’s eye, Kurteeva said on her Instagram page in September.
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“I carefully separated all the contact lenses and counted a total of 23. I had to use a very fine surgical instrument, jeweler’s pliers to separate the contact lenses,” wrote Kurteeva, who works at California Eye. Associates in Newport Beach, USA. on Instagram.
“They were basically stuck together after sitting under the eyelid for a month.”
As she pulls the chain of contacts from the woman’s eye, Kurteeva says she’s her “Guinness World Record patient,” and the shocked patient says it’s all very “weird.”
The video has over 80,000 views on Instagram and hundreds of thousands more after being shared on TikTok.
“My eyes hurt so much watching this,” one viewer commented on TikTok.
“The relief must be amazing,” another commented on Instagram.
Many were curious as to why the contacts were green, and Kurteeva explained that she used a stain in the patient’s eyes to change the blue tint to green.
Kurteeva was happy the video went viral so it could help educate the public on how to properly wear and remove contact lenses.
She added that people should never sleep with their contacts.
The Charlotte Observer
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