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Chinese man suffers severe vision loss from over 1,000 eye mites

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A man in China experienced severe vision loss due to an infestation of over a thousand Demodex mites in his eyelash follicles. The 36-year-old man from Hubei province suffered from chronic eye discomfort, including dryness and itchiness, for six months. His condition, diagnosed as Demodex Blepharitis, was attributed by his doctor, Qin Jiao, to poor hygiene and excessive eye-rubbing, which likely exacerbated the mite overgrowth. AI

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Chinese man suffers severe vision loss from over 1,000 eye mites

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Fran Lu ·

    Eye-rubbing, poor hygiene to blame for Chinese man’s severe mite-induced vision loss

    A Chinese man suffered from vision loss after over a thousand mites infected his eyes, and it turned out that his life habits were to blame. The 36-year-old man in central Hubei province, surnamed Yu, experienced eye discomfort. His eyes felt dry, itchy and sticky for six months.…

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