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A healthy 43-year-old Nigerian man living in the United States noticed something wiggling in his right eye while he was driving. He went to his optometrist, who saw an opaque, thin, undulating worm under the conjunctiva. Attempts to extract the worm were unsuccessful. The irritation and discomfort in the patient's eye abated after one day, and he did not notice the presence of the worm or its movement again until one week later. By the time the patient visited an ophthalmologist, the worm could not be seen. Four days later, the worm wiggled again and was directly observed (arrow, Panel . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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