Student's eyeballs EATEN by bug after she failed to clean contact lenses

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

Doctors said 23-year-old Lian Kao's case is an extreme lesson in the importance of basic hygiene.
Under pressure because of her university studies, the young woman failed to take off her contact lenses and wash them once for half a year.

When she eventually went to hospital, doctors were horrified when they removed the contact lenses to find that the surface of the girl's eyes had literally been eaten by a single-cell amoeba. The bug had been able to breed in the perfect conditions that existed between the contact lens and the eye.

Lian Kao has been left blinded as a result.

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

"The girl should have thrown the contact lenses away after a month but instead she overused them and has now permanently damaged her corneas."