A woman in Taiwan went to the Fooyin University Hospital with a swollen eye, the doctors in the hospital found 4 bees living inside her eye.
Doctors in the hospital managed to remove the bees from her eye.
During a press conference, Dr. Hung Chi-Ting, the head of ophthalmology in Fooyin University Hospital, said, “I saw something that looked like insect legs, so I pulled them out under a microscope slowly, and one at a time without damaging their bodies.”
According to reports, the bees entered the eye of Ms. He while she was pulling out weeds near the grave of her relative, she said that she did felt something enter her eye but assumed that it was just dirt and decided to wash it out.
When Ms. He woke up the next day, she found that her eye was swollen and decided to go to the hospital.
The doctors said that Ms. He recovered 80 percent of her eyesight, she stayed in the hospital for 5 days.
According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, sweet bees, which are also known as Halictidae, are known to be attracted to a human’s perspiration.
Doctors of the Fooyin University Hospital said that the bees have mistaken her tears as sweats and if Ms. He delayed in seeking medical assistance, she could have had lost her eye.