I removed 23 contact lenses from a patient's eye. I've never seen anything like it.
, an infection, an eyelash, or debris from makeup. I'd only know for sure once I did the examination.To start, I used an anaesthetic and a yellow stain to identify any scratches or foreign bodies. I couldn't see anything on the cornea from the initial examination, so I proceeded to manually pull on the lower and upper lids to see if there was anything in the upper or lower fornix.
When I asked her to look down, I could see the edges of a couple of contacts stuck to each other. Pulling them out, I felt like I could still see more and asked my assistant to get my phone toAsking the patient to look down again, I could see a huge, dark-purple blob of contact lenses stuck to her eye. It almost looked like a second pupil. I gently started using a Q-tip to peel the lenses apart one by one, like you would deal a deck of cards.
Laying out the contacts on a tissue, I separated each one with fine-tip forceps and counted 23 contact lenses. Some of them were yellow and some light blue, because while the natural colour of a contact lens is light blue, the stain I put in her eyes to examine had coloured some of the lenses yellow.
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