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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Aaliyah Rugg

'Parasite' crawling out of mum's eyes was like scene from 'horror film'

A "parasite" that popped out of mum's eye looked like something from "Stranger Things" as people were left "feeling sick".

On July 22, Louise Edwards woke up to find what looked like a spot on her right eye and thought she had been bitten by a bug. But as the day went on, the lump was getting bigger, causing her eye to close.

On July 23, the 34-year-old mum went to St Paul's Eye Hospital in Royal Liverpool Hospital to get it checked over and was given antibiotics and sent home. But she was forced to go back as things did not improve and the pain was "the worst she had ever felt".

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