Stinger is in the eye of the bee-holder: Barb stays hidden in man’s eyeball
ED doctors thought they'd removed the bee's stinger but remnants remained: case report.
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How do you remove a bee sting from an eyeball? With a referral to an ophthalmologist and a pair of jeweller’s forceps, according to US doctors.
The sting had lodged in the right eye of a 55-year-old Philadelphia man when he was stung by the insect, the ophthalmologists write in a case report.