A Thelazia infection, called Thelaziasis, can “cause mild to severe signs and lesions, such as foreign body sensation, ...

In a rare medical case, parasitic worms grew underneath a woman's upper eyelid.

Doctors in China were surprised to discover a parasitic infection had caused live worms to grow under a woman's right eyelid.

The (back) end of the worm displayed a buccal capsule (a feature of the mouth used to take up food), a distinctive feature of Thelazia callipaeda,” doctors said. The woman may have contracted ...

That was when they made a startling discovery: Four live, white worms were wriggling around under the woman's eyelid. After applying an anesthetic to the area, the team used forceps to carefully ...

The woman headed to Peking University Third Hospital ... and a small lesion was growing. Then, four white worms were found on either side of the eye sac, according to the report.