CCI after parasite (UK newspaper articles)

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...es-chronic-fatigue-parasite-burrowed-EYE.html

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/brave-young-woman-faces-lifelong-4303421.amp

Reading the articles in sequence, it seems like the parasite led to ME, and now CCI.

Also, perhaps I have missed discussion of this here. Please forgive me because my ME is severe. But it seems that this CCI operation is now available in Leeds for half the price of the Spanish hospital?

 

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I never knew showering or swimming with contact lenses in was a risk factor for catching an Acanthamoeba keratitis eye infection.

I have not worn contact lenses since getting ME/CFS (because this illness tends to make my eyes a bit dry), but when I did, I would regularly go swimming with them on.

I have never heard of Acanthamoeba keratitis causing ME/CFS before, but this infection is rare (only 1 or 2 people per million contact wearers get this infection annually), so there would not be enough data to observe if there was an ME/CFS association.

Developing ME/CFS after a parasite infection is known though, since ME/CFS can appear after a Giardia lamblia gut infection.

 

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Yes, I hadn’t heard of it before seeing that article. I guess there’s not really enough information to come to a conclusion but I just thought it was interesting that there is the suggestion that parasite caused CCI (or caused ME, then CCI). I guess it jumped out because it was another link between infection and spinal problems.