Rare! The doctor removed 23 forgotten contact lenses from the patient's eye

↑ The moment when Kurtieva took out a large string of contact lenses from the patient's eye

Last month, Katerina Kurtieva, an ophthalmologist in Newport Beach, California, posted a video
online of 23 contact lenses removed from patients' eyes.
This shocking video quickly went viral
on social media around the world.

Recently, Kurtieva was interviewed in detail about this rare case, and said that in her nearly 20 years of practice, she had never seen such a thing
.

"It was a crazy Monday, and towards the end of the day, a 70-year-old patient who wears contact lenses every day came to the clinic and said she felt something was out of her eye
.
" Kurtieva said
.

According to her description, the female patient had not come to the clinic for a routine check-up for two years until her eye pain became unbearable and her vision began to blur.

So Kurtiva used anesthetic and yellow dye and began to look for scratches or foreign bodies in the patient's eyes, but found no abnormalities
on the cornea.
It wasn't until Kurtiva examined her further with her eyelidscope that she made a "shocking discovery.
"

"When I asked her to look down, I saw the edges of a pair of contact lenses glued together
.
After taking them out, I felt that I had seen more things, so I asked my assistant to take out my phone and record the process
.
Kurtieva said
.
When the patient's eyeball turned down again, she saw a large mass of contact lenses, so she gently peeled the lenses with a cotton swab, "they drooped down
her eyelids like chains.
" There are a lot of contact lenses
.
This could be the moment
when I set the Guinness World Record.
”

↑ Ophthalmologist Katerina Kurtieva (left) and some lenses removed from the patient's eye (right)

After carefully removing the largest string of lenses, she removed a few more lenses from the corner of the patient's eye, and then rinsed the patient's eye with distilled and sterile water to complete the treatment
.
Subsequently, Kurtieva peeled off the removed lenses one by one and found that there were as many as 23 contact lenses
.
"I've never seen anything
like this in my nearly 20 years of practice.
" She said
.
"The patient couldn't believe it and asked me if I was sure of the number
I counted.
"

Kurtieva said it was impossible to determine exactly how the patient forgot so many contact lenses in her eyes, one possibility is that she has been wearing contact lenses for 30 years, and wearing contact lenses for a long time may cause desensitization of corneal nerve endings, and the feeling of 23 contact lenses is not so strong
.
It's also possible that she is older, and the eyelid vaults of older people are much deeper, and "contact lenses there have no effect on her.
"

However, her patient was very fortunate that he did not develop an infection, corneal scratches or blindness, and his eyes did not suffer permanent damage
.
"I asked her to stop wearing contact lenses and give her eyes a break, but she immediately put them on again
.
I saw her a month after the check-up and she recovered well, felt much more comfortable and could see clearly
.
She said
.

After sending the patient away, Kurtieva shared the video of the examination online, writing: "It is rare
for someone to 'forget' to remove their contact lenses at night and put on new ones every morning.
" She said the shocking video "went viral very quickly," with ophthalmologists from Mexico, South America and Europe educating people about taking off their daily contact lenses every night
.