A brain-eating amoeba killed a young boy last month in Nebraska, and now a woman says the same type of microorganism is in her eye.
/Gray News) - A brain-eating amoeba killed a young boy last month in Nebraska, and now a woman said the same type of microorganism is in her eye.Acanthamoeba
But that involves a constant regimen of drugs she carefully administers herself. She said she has to use about 60 eye drops a day. Having worn soft contacts since the third grade, Zeleny said she wore her contacts while riding an inner tube this summer at a lake.Zeleny said she also did some yard work that could have caused the infection.Dr. Mike Feilmeier, a corneal surgeon at Midwest Eye Care, said those who wear soft contacts should clean them properly, not sleep in them and try to avoid wearing them when swimming.
With her sister-in-law driving, Zeleny has been traveling four hours about once a week to the University of Iowa, where a prognosis of a corneal transplant is a possibility.
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