Mum's horror at 'parasite' crawling out of her eye after coming back from holiday

A mum has spoken out about her experience of having a "parasite" burrowed into her eye that left people "feeling sick".

Louise Edwards awoke on July 22 to find what appeared to be a spot on her right eye. Initially, she believed she was simply bitten by an insect, however, as the day went on, the spot became bigger and bigger, forcing her eye shut.

On the day after, the 34-year-old mum went to St Paul's Eye Hospital in Royal Liverpool Hospital to get the large lump looked at. After an examination, she was provided a course of antibiotics and was sent home, the Liverpool Echo reports.

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However, she was forced to go back to the hospital as the treatment she was given did nothing to improve the condition while the pain was "the worst she had ever felt". One of Louise's neighbour's advised her to use boiling water to draw the spot out.

After carrying out the advise, the mum said she felt a "popping sensation" and saw some kind of "parasite with legs" crawl out of the womb. Louise is still unsure of what it could be despite being in Turkey a month prior to the incident and a caravan the week before.

Talking to the Liverpool Echo, Louise said: "I was in my house, I hadn't really been anywhere recently. I was in Turkey around a month before, and at the caravan a week before, but nothing came up in the days after.

"I sleep with the windows open so maybe something got in, then as I woke up and had this thing, like a pimple. They (St Pauls) tried to squeeze it and gave me antibiotics and sent me home.

"The next day I couldn't even see because my eye had closed over. I have really bad eyesight and the eye with the spot was my good eye. I