I’m sharing my flesh-eating parasite ordeal so you don’t make my mistake

THE SUN

FOR most people, taking a quick nap is harmless and usually you wake up feeling refreshed.

But when Mike Krumholz settled down for a snooze, he never thought he’d wake up blind in one eye due to a flesh-eating parasite which eats away at eye tissue.

The 21-year-old is now sharing his terrifying ordeal so that others’ don’t make the same mistake as him.

Mike, who wears contact lenses, didn’t remove them before drifting off.

When he woke up, Mike, from Florida, US, said his eye had been irritated and was also pink.

He added: “My contacts just felt really irritated like they were floating in my eye. I took them out and there was nothing wrong,” he told The Daily Star.

said he knew he had to take his lenses out, telling his parents that ‘something isn’t right’.

When he first saw his doctor, he said he was wrongly diagnosed with herpes simplex type 1.

He then went on to see five ophthalmologists and two cornea specialists, who all said the same thing, sending him away with antibiotics and steroids.

However, medics later told him that this only sped up the rate at which the parasite was spread.