Optometrist removes tick from man’s eye

An American man has had a tick removed from his eye by an optometrist.

Chris Prater from Kentucky was working for an electric company to remove a tree from power lines when his eye started to feel uncomfortable. Unable to ease the irritation by flushing his eye out, he visited his optometrist who informed him that a tick had become stuck in his eye.

Prater said: ‘I leaned around and looked at him and I asked him if he was joking and he said: “No, you have a deer tick or some type of tick.”’

The optometrist numbed his eye and removed the tick with tweezers. Prater said that the tick made a little popping sound as it was removed and went home with antibiotics and steroid drops.