An 11-year-old girl recently had as many as 60 ants removed from her eyes after complaining for a while of severe eye pain.
The schoolgirl, who resides in an Indian village, baffled doctors with the strange phenomenon. However, one local doctor in India apparently thinks the ants had entered through the girlâs ears while she slept.
The 11-year-old Indian girl named Ashwini is said to have complained for days about having âsomething in her eyes.â The family, who lives in a village in Belthangady, India, called the Nellingeri village, thought that an ant had just landed in Ashwiniâs eye as she slept.
Eyelids
According to the Daily Mail, Ashwiniâs parents had first found just one ant âbelow her eyelid.â
When Ashwini continued to complain about the discomfort, her parents sought out the help of a local doctor in southern India.
While at the local hospital, the doctor was said to have removed 60 dead ants from Ashwiniâs eyes and said that âthe ants had probably enteredâ through her ears.
Dead ants
The doctor also prescribed eye drops for Ashwini to aid in the healing of the irritation and inflammation that was a result of having the dead ants in her eyes for so long.
The 60 dead ants were apparently all removed from Ashwiniâs eyes within 10 days.