Yuk! Doctors take 27 contact lenses from patient’s eye

A WOMAN has had 27 contact lenses removed from one eye.

The discovery was made after the 67year-old went to hospital for routine cataract surgery. But experts said ‘a bluish foreign body’ emerged during the procedure ‘as a hard mass of 17 contact lenses bound together by mucus’.

Ten more were then found under further examination at Solihull Hospital in the West Midlands, according to a report in the British Medical Journal.

The experts wrote: ‘The patient had worn monthly disposable lenses for 35 years. She had poorer vision in the right eye and deep set eyes, which might have contributed to the unusually large number of retained foreign bodies.’

Ophthalmologist, Rupal Morjaria, told the journal Optometry Today: ‘We were really surprised that the patient didn’t notice it because it would cause quite a lot of irritation. She was quite shocked. She thought her previous discomfort was just part of old age and a dry eye.’