中国学生不清洁隐形眼镜导致眼球被臭虫吃掉

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

一名学生的眼球被一只臭虫给吃了——因为六个月的时间内他都没有对隐形眼镜进行清洁。

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.

医生说这名23岁学生连考的例子表明了基本的卫生是多么重要。由于大学学习的压力很大，这名女学生半年才洗一次隐形眼镜。

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.

当她最终来到医院时，医护人员在取下她的隐形眼镜时都吓坏了，因为女孩眼睛的表面基本上被单细胞的变形虫给吃掉了。

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

隐形眼镜和眼睛之间的地方为臭虫的生存和繁衍提供了完美的环境。

Lian Kao has been left blinded as a result.

结果就是这名叫做连考的女学生瞎了。

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

一名叫做吴建亮的医生说：“隐形眼镜佩带者是眼部疾病的易感人群。”

"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.

“氧气的缺乏很容易破坏上皮组织表面，引发微小的伤口，从而易被细菌感染，这些细菌会扩散到眼部其他地方，提供了完美的繁衍环境。”

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

“这名女孩在佩戴一个月后就应该把隐形眼镜扔了，但是她过度使用了，导致她眼角膜受到了永远的伤害。”

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

他说，她被确诊患有棘阿米巴角膜炎，虽然这种病很少见，但是最容易发生在夏天。

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

这名医生公布了这个事件以引起其他隐形眼镜佩带者的注意，要多关注隐形眼镜的卫生。