This is the horrendous moment a doctor in Vietnam removed dozens of flukes that were living in a woman's eyes.

A video filmed in Cao Bang on May 15 shows the doctor using an implement to tease the parasitic flatworms from the patient's eyes.

According to the doctor, the woman came to her clinic complaining of itching and pain. She said it felt like there were animals crawling in her eyes.

On examination, the doctor saw the flukes some of which were more than 10 centimetres long.

The doctor advised the patient to stop washing her face in streams.

Fortunately, the flukes did not damage the woman's eyes.

The video was filmed with the patient's permission.

Video captured the moment of the doctor removing dozens of flukes live in a woman's eyes in Cao Bang, Viet Nam.
According to the doctor, the woman came to her clinic and said that she felt itching and pain in her eyes. She felt like there were animals crawling in her eyes.
After checking, the doctor suddenly found flukes crawling in the woman's eyes. She quickly removed the flukes from the woman's eyes. There are flukes more than 10 cm long.
The woman said she regularly washes her face in a mountain stream. This may have been the cause of the flukes getting into her eyes.
The doctor said the moving flukes caused the woman's eyes to swell and hurt. She advised the woman to stop washing her face with spring water.
Thankfully the flukes did not damage the woman's eye surface.
The video was filmed with the patient's permission.