Mother feels pop as ‘parasite’ crawls out of eyelid ‘like scene from horror film’

Mother feels pop as ‘parasite’ crawls out of eyelid ‘like scene from horror film’

A woman was left with "the worst pain she had ever felt" from a "parasite" that burrowed into her eyelid.

Louise Edwards woke up on 22 July with what she described as a spot above the skin on her right eye.

Ms Edwards , of Allerton, Liverpool, thought she had been bitten by a bug but sought medical treatment after the wound got bigger.

The 34-year-old mother went to St Paul's Eye Hospital in Royal Liverpool Hospital the following day and was sent home with antibiotics.

Acting on the advice of a neighbour, Ms Edwards said she then used boiling water to draw out whatever was in her eyelid.

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