Teenage Boy Had a Maggot Inside His Eye

Posted on August 3, 2010

A teenage boy had a maggot inside his eye that was eating his retina. The event happened five years ago and is being documented an Animal Network show called Monsters Inside Me. A gnat landed in the boy's eye when he was walking to school and doctors believe the gnat must have laid an egg, which grew into a maggot. Doctors killed the maggot by cutting it in half with a laser. This seems like a very rare event. It is the first we have heard of it, but it might be worth keeping a close look on your eye if you feel like you had a bug fly in it. Take a look:

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