Maggot in my eye...

JodieWodie · Reflective Banana Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

I was walking home from work today, and encountered a group of 'midgey' type things flying in a cloud. They were bigger than midgies though... but I am brave. I walked on through them Shocked

Anyway.. one flew straight into my right eye. God damn it hurt!! Crying or Very sad

I tried to fish said fly thing out but it went down into the below eyelid 'thing' Surprised

It hurt like crazy, stung, and my eye went red. Could feel it there. But no matter what I did it stayed put.

So, went on home about 3 hours later, I felt a largeish bulge in the corner of my eye. And what did I find?....
A yellowy/creamy coloured MAGGOT!!! Exclamation

With a little black head Confused

Do flies have maggots inside all of the time waiting to come out?
Everyone I have asked says no and seems totally repulsed at them fact and I am lying

I tried to take a photo, but it's a bit tricky
Am I going to need putting down?

JO xx
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Shay HTFC · World Chat Champion Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Karma :

That was a waste of a good dinner down the toilet! Razz

bazza · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Karma :

Don't worry about it.

Worry about the other fifty or so waiting to hatch when you go to sleep tonight... Wink

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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

I'm hoping by now you've been to A&E...
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Finglonga · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Karma :

Flies lay eggs, eggs hatch after "a few days" maggots emerge . . . then feed. That either was what went into your eye today and not a fly or your infested!!! Shocked

If your not sure, nip to the doctors and ask where it may have come from. But flies don't give birth to live maggots.

Reminds me of this . . . Exclamation

NOT FOR THE SQUEEMISH Exclamation

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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

To get your eye checked out for infection and/or further maggots*, at the end of the day I'd have gone but then I nearly lost an eye through a twat with a piece of oak, so I'm a bit stern where eyes come in to things...

*Also to rule out it's not wood worm... Whistle

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D O G · World Chat Champion Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Karma :

Not a maggot in my opinion. I have had various bugs etc in my eye (from cycling), and that looks to me as if not all of the midge came out when you rubbed it out. The eye can then make a discharge which clumps round the foreign body, which then comes out. It looks exactly like the pic you have.

A bit like a grain of sand in an oyster, only worth fuck all.

IMHO I don't think its feasible that a maggot could develop so quickly.

Disclaimer:
I have no formal medical training whatsoever. I can in no way be held responsible when your eye bursts in a boiling clump of thousands of writhing maggots, who then burrow into your skull and devour your brain.

I also have no biological knowledge at all. For all I know maggots could develop in a few minutes. But then again, its not my eye.

Duckyboos · Traffic Copper Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Karma :

Q: What's worse than finding a maggot in your eye...

A: Sick

Hopefully that's just what flew into your eye, but it'd still be worth a trip to the eye clinic... eyes infections can be nasty and dangerous... better safe than sorry Karma

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Mudskipper · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

Where's the 'EW!' rating when you need it?!?!?! Sick

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Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

It's the body of the fly, it probably lost it's wings when you rubbed your eye. Therefore with no wings it looks like a maggot.

It's gross when you get a big fat fly explode on your visor and you can see all the eggs splatted around the impact zone.

LUXY DJ · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Karma :

niiiiice

it does look like a maggot, but size is tiny, but i spose tiny flies have tiny maggots

i remember years ago a tree that over hung a bus stop & as my mate & me where waiting there, we noticed this thing hanging & on closer inspection it was a maggot thing on the end of a web type line, like it was hanging down waiting on a `new home` Surprised

the when we realised wtf it was (it was wiggling) we brushed hair like mad & also noticed a few others aswell

IMO, if you got the thing out, then anything left in there will just wash out Thumbs Up

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Ichy · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Karma :

Maggots only eat dead flesh, they use them in hospitals to clean out wounds.

It must be true, I saw it on My Name is Earl.

Unless it was a mini botfly. In which case it will eat your brain, maybe.

https://www.davesgonemental.com/giving-birth-to-a-baby-botfly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bot_fly

pa_broon74 · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :