A family day of berry-picking in the Swedish countryside turned into a medical ordeal when a mother discovered a tick clinging to her daughter's eyelashes.

Alessandra Paiusco (@la.tuttologa) from Uppsala, Sweden, shared the find in a post on TikTok , with a close-up image showing the insect lodged in her 1-year-old's lash line.

The 33-year-old told Newsweek the family had been on holiday at a farm about an hour outside Uppsala with her parents, Marco, 63, and Lea, 57, along with her children Leonidas, nearly 3, and Olympia.

"We went to the woods to pick blueberries—actually we were hoping for chanterelles," she said, referring to the sought-after yellow–orange edible mushrooms. Paiusco continued: "I was melting looking at the children bonding while eating berries."

Once the family

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