IT'S pretty common to feel like something's stuck in your eye - even when there isn't anything visible there.

Dry eyes , scratches on the eye, or foreign objects like dust or an eyelash are popular culprits.

But when one woman went to hospital on multiple occasions when the feeling wouldn't go away, it turned out to be parasites.

In a case report published in BMC Ophthalmology , the 41-year-old decided to seek medical help after feeling like there was something stuck in her right eye.

Upon first examination, doctors noted that the outer surface, the cornea, appeared damaged, but didn't find any foreign bodies.

They prescribed the patient, who was living in Beijing, eye drops. One type was to treat the eye irritation and another had antibiotics in it to help prevent infection.

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