Video: Doctor removes 23 contact lenses from patient’s eye

A video of a doctor in California, USA, removing 23 contact lenses stuck inside a woman’s eye has gone viral on social media. As per the doctor, the patient forgot to remove her lenses at night.

Posting the video on the California Eye Associates Instagram page, Dr Katerina Kurteeva wrote: “A rare occasion when someone ‘forgot’ to remove contact lenses at night and kept on putting a new one in every morning. 23 days in a row!!! I got to deliver the contact lens yesterday in my clinic.”

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The ophthalmologist can be seen using a cotton bud to take out the ‘lost’ contact lenses stacked up inside the woman’s eye.