Doctors remove bee stinger from Philadelphia man's EYEBALL after bleed nearly blinds him READ MORE: Woman lets hundreds of bees sting her to cure her Lyme disease Do you have a health story? Email us at health@dailymail.com By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 15:30, 4 July 2024 | Updated: 15:55, 4 July 2024 e-mail 3 View comments A 55 year-old Philadelphia man was nearly blinded after a bee stinger got lodged in his eyeball and had to be forcibly removed with tweezers.
The man presented to urgent care with 'worsening vision and pain' and the stinger was quickly identified — but doctors failed to remove it all, as it was embedded in the edge of his iris, or the colored bit of the eye. Two days later, the man entered the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, still in pain and virtually blind in his right eye. Further tests revealed that the man was suffering dangerous bleeding inside the eye and damage to the tiny blood vessels.
The side of the eye closest to the nose still had part of the stinger lodged in it, which appeared yellow after the eyes were dyed, as shown by an arrow in the image The doctor removed the remaining portion of the stinger using jeweler’s forceps, but his eye was still inflamed, and he needed follow-up care at an ophthalmologist Doctors discovered the damage using a detailed eye exam using a slit-lamp and fluorescein dye, highlighting any damage by turning it yellow-green. He had redness in the white part of the eye,.