Child undergoes four surgeries as caterpillar falls into eye

A three-year-old girl from Navi Mumbai, who suffered agonising pain for days after a caterpillar with stinging hair landed into her eye, underwent four surgeries for removal of over 150 such strands.

The girl, Vedika Sandecha, was at her grandmother’s house at Karad in Satara district last month, when while playing in the garden the hairy caterpillar fell into her right eye. Her parents rushed her to a local clinic as the irritation increased and the child couldn’t open her eye.

The physician saw over 150 strands of caterpillar hair lodged into her eye.