Mum who feared she was losing her sight when she woke up with her red swollen eyes ‘glued shut’ finds miracle cure
07.07.2023 - 13:29
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman feared she was going to lose her eyesite after waking up with “red swollen eyes glued together”. Mum-of-three Katherine Hutchings, 59, feared the worst when her eyelids began to itch and swell in spring 2018.
Katherine, who is a full-time carer for her son, tried several prescription treatments which did not work. Despite trying remedies such as coconut oil and paracetamol, as well as being prescribed antibiotic cream by her GP, nothing seemed to improve her condition.
Some of the prescribed treatments even made her condition worse, causing them to become “so painful” that she had to stop using them. At their worst, she said her eyelids felt like “they were being stabbed with sharp needles” on a day-to-day basis, making her not want to leave the house.
Katherine's confidence plummeted. She stopped going to the gym as she “couldn’t bear the stares”, and was left feeling "years" older than she was. She was unable to cry about her situation due to her eye problem.
She said: “The irritation became increasingly worse and it got to the point where I randomly woke up with red swollen eyes glued together and my eyelids felt like they were being stabbed with sharp needles.
“It was agonising and I felt quite scared because as I gradually pulled at my lashes to ease my eyes open, everything was a blur and I feared that I was losing my eyesight.
“My eyelids started to crack and weep and then crusted over – they looked bruised as if I had been in several rounds of a boxing ring, with bruised shadows underneath.
“I found that everything seemed to trigger the swelling and even the dust on the floor of the gym which I attended, people kept asking me if I was okay as they could see my acute discomfort.”
After revisiting her GP,