Initially, eye specialists discovered 17 lenses, before a further examination revealed that another 10 lenses were stuck in the eye.
In 2016, surgeons at Solihull Hospital near Birmingham found 27 contact lenses stuck in a woman’s eye while preparing her for cataract surgery.
Those with the condition might have an increased risk of their contact lenses being disloged and hidden in a space between the eye and eyelid, the paper said.
A woman only realised she had five contact lenses stuck under her eyelid after going to a plastic surgeon about something different.
The ‘otherwise healthy’ woman, aged 33, knew she had lost lenses from her left eye a few times, but thought they must just have fallen out.
