中國學生不清潔隱形眼鏡導致眼球被臭蟲吃掉

A student's eyeballs were devoured by a bug - aftershe failed to clean her disposable contact lenses for more than six months.

一名學生的眼球被一隻臭蟲給吃了——因爲六個月的時間內他都沒有對隱形眼鏡進行清潔。

Doctors said 23-year-old Lian Kao's case is anextreme lesson in the importance of basic r pressure because of her university studies,the young woman failed to take ever contact lenses and wash them once for halfa year.

醫生說這名23歲學生連考的例子表明了基本的衛生是多麼重要。由於大學學習的壓力很大，這名女學生半年才洗一次隱形眼鏡。

When she eventually went to hospital, medics werehorrified when they removed the contact lenses to find that the surface of thegirl's eyes had literally been eaten by a single-cell amoeba.

當她最終來到醫院時，醫護人員在取下她的隱形眼鏡時都嚇壞了，因爲女孩眼睛的表面基本上被單細胞的變形蟲給吃掉了。

The bug had been able to breed in the perfectconditions that existed between the contact lens and the eye.

隱形眼鏡和眼睛之間的地方爲臭蟲的生存和繁衍提供了完美的環境。

Lian Kao has been left blinded as a result.

結果就是這名叫做連考的女學生瞎了。

Doctor Wu Jian-liang, said: "Contact lenswearers are a high-risk group that can easily be exposed to eye diseases.

一名叫做吳建亮的醫生說：“隱形眼鏡佩帶者是眼部疾病的易感人羣。”

"A shortage of oxygen can destroy the surfaceof the epithelial tissue, creating tiny wounds into which the bacteria caneasily infect, spreading to the rest of the eye and providing a perfectbreeding ground.

“氧氣的缺乏很容易破壞上皮組織表面，引發微小的傷口，從而易被細菌感染，這些細菌會擴散到眼部其他地方，提供了完美的繁衍環境。”

"The girl should have thrown the contactlenses away after a month but instead she overused them and has now permanentlydamaged her corneas."

“這名女孩在佩戴一個月後就應該把隱形眼鏡扔了，但是她過度使用了，導致她眼角膜受到了永遠的傷害。”

He said that she had been diagnosed withacanthamoeba keratitis, which although rare was always more common in thesummer.

他說，她被確診患有棘阿米巴角膜炎，雖然這種病很少見，但是最容易發生在夏天。

Dr Jian-liang revealed the girl's case to shockother contact lens wearers into being more careful about hygiene.

這名醫生公佈了這個事件以引起其他隱形眼鏡佩帶者的注意，要多關注隱形眼鏡的衛生。