A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it, officials said on Tuesday.

The patient recovering from a post-surgery infection shrieked for help as the ants attacked her on Sunday night, but nurses told her it was normal to feel pain from the infection.

On Monday, the patient’s family saw a gaping hole with swarming ants in it when they lifted the bandage on her left eye.

Authorities of the Sambhunath Hospital in Kolkata said they were probing the incident.

“It’s not uncommon for ants to attack diabetic patients. We have set up a committee to investigate the unfortunate incident,” hospital superintendent A. Adhikary said.

Scampering rats and stray cats and dogs sharing bed space with patients are not uncommon sights at India’s overcrowded state-run hospitals that are used by millions of poor and middle-class people.

Visual?

http://www.news.cornell.edu/photos/ant1.300.jpg

http://216.241.45.248/Images/blogger/eye-big.jpg

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, Now I got it!

I guess no pics of the actual "ants eating away at the eye". Oh well...

Ants like diabetics... Big shock.

why?

Diabetics who aren't on insulin can't control their blood sugar levels... Normal human glucose is between 70-105... I've had patients as high as 630, which is A) fucking insane, and B) damn near dead... Those are diabetic coma levels. Ants are attracted to sugar... Back in the old days of medicine, the way doctors tested if you were diabetic was to have you pee on the ground near an ant hill... If the ants went running to your urine, it meant you were spilling glucose, and you were diabetic. If they didn't, you were good to go. Ants can find sugar like dogs can sniff drugs.

ahhh $100t2 beat me to it.

they used to do that in china as well.

thats how i killed my girlfriend

Edit:

http://www.theforumlounge.com/attach-1396

http://www.rx7club.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=116136&stc=1
Link doesn't work.:(

There ya go wonner!