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A woman was nearly blinded by a Christmas card when a piece of glitter worked its way into her eyeball. | A woman was nearly blinded by a Christmas card when a piece of glitter worked its way into her eyeball. |
The 49-year-old attended the ophthalmology department of Singleton hospital in Swansea complaining of a painful, reddened eye, loss of vision and swollen eyelid. | The 49-year-old attended the ophthalmology department of Singleton hospital in Swansea complaining of a painful, reddened eye, loss of vision and swollen eyelid. |
Doctors spotted a lesion on the patient’s cornea and initially suspected it to be caused by a herpes simplex infection, according to a case study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). But when the lesion was examined under a powerful microscope, a shiny surface was spotted inside. | Doctors spotted a lesion on the patient’s cornea and initially suspected it to be caused by a herpes simplex infection, according to a case study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). But when the lesion was examined under a powerful microscope, a shiny surface was spotted inside. |
The patient remembered getting glitter in her eye when it rubbed off a Christmas card. The glitter had formed into a clump, causing a lesion that mimicked the symptoms of a herpes infection, the report said. | The patient remembered getting glitter in her eye when it rubbed off a Christmas card. The glitter had formed into a clump, causing a lesion that mimicked the symptoms of a herpes infection, the report said. |
The report advised doctors to always ask about the cause of a possible trauma to the eye, even if the symptoms seemed to clearly indicate a common infection. | The report advised doctors to always ask about the cause of a possible trauma to the eye, even if the symptoms seemed to clearly indicate a common infection. |
“The lesion may have been easily misdiagnosed as a herpetic simplex infection by non-specialists for which treatment would have been topical antiviral ointment instead of removal and antibiotics,” the report said. | “The lesion may have been easily misdiagnosed as a herpetic simplex infection by non-specialists for which treatment would have been topical antiviral ointment instead of removal and antibiotics,” the report said. |
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