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Some parasites can affect the eyes. Without treatment, this can lead to vision loss. Learn more about the types of eye parasites, their symptoms, and treatment options.

A woman fears she could partially lose her sight after a water parasite "burrowed" into her eye when she went swimming while wearing contact lenses. Nicola Greenfield, of Rendlesham, Suffolk, has ...

A woman fears she could partially lose her sight after a water parasite "burrowed" into her eye when she went swimming while wearing contact lenses. Nicola Greenfield, of Rendlesham, Suffolk, has been ...

"If you wear contact lenses [the parasite] can get trapped behind the lens and start to burrow into the eye," she said. "It is incredibly rare but that, unfortunately, is what's happened to me." ...

They irritate the stomach lining and encourage mucosal shedding, and to the untrained eye, it looks like a parasite." Self-diagnosing parasites in your own stool can be tricky.

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