Woman left with 'excruciating' pain and unable to open eye from dirty makeup bag

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READ MORE: Weight loss, better sleep and improved eyesight - 5 benefits from quitting boozeThree months into her adventure, Laura was taken to A&E because she knew something wasn't right.She said: "I'd had conjunctivitis before and this was definitely not it.

I woke up and I couldn't physically open my eye."Even just a tiny bit of light getting in my eye would feel like a burning or stabbing pain."Throughout the day before, her eye had gotten more swollen and shut over.At the hospital, Laura was sent to an optimologist, who discovered she had a corneal ulcer, which left untreated could have left her blind.And the cause of her infection was down to having a dirty makeup bag.Laura had started wearing glasses when she was 10 and made the switch to contact lenses at the age of 16.She had been using two-week disposable contact lenses which should be taken out before bed, placing them in a saline solution overnight and putting them back in in the morning.The lenses were supposed to last for two weeks, but despite Laura's careful handling, one lens picked up bacteria from the makeup bag where they were stored.After a course of strong painkillers and eye drops, doctors scraped bacterial cells from her eye for testing.They believe the bacterial infection was picked up from her makeup bag, where the contact lens case had been stored every night during her time in Australia.Laura was in hospital for over a week then had to recover at a friend's house for nearly a month.She faced three cancelled flights due to the pandemic, but then on March 26 she was able to return home with an eye patch.Now a year on from her experience, Laura has permanent scarring on her right eye and is waiting for a corneal transplant on the NHS.The personal.