Hair In Punctum

Hair In Punctum

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A middle-aged male presented to the Eye OPD with complaints of right eye foreign body sensation, pain, redness, watering for 10 days.Anterior segment examination Makeup Brushes revealed a hair in the punctum which was removed easily with atraumatic forceps.Patient was prescribed topical antibiotic eye drops and lubricants and followed up after one week.

Hair in punctum is a rare phenomenon wherein eyelashes which are shed like regular hair are carried away by reflex lacrimal secretion and sucked into the DL-Phenylalanine lower punctum due to negative pressure created in the canaliculus secondary to eye blink.We describe a case of hair in punctum which was removed by a simple procedure, relieving the patient of his symptoms.