Beltangady: In an unusual occurrence, a class five girl has left doctors puzzled as ants seem to be coming out of her eyes, and they are not able to trace the cause.

The girl, a resident of Nellingeri village.in the taluk studies at the government lower primary school here. Initially when the girl complained of some irritation in her eyes, her parents had found an ant below her eyelid, and believed that the same would have somehow entered her eye while she was asleep. But when the problem continued they consulted a doctor at the local hospital and were informed that the ants had probably entered through the girl’s ears and she was given some eye drops. Despite the medication, nearly 5-6 ants have been coming out of her eyes daily, thus forcing her parents to consult an astrologer, who is believed to have told them that the girl is going through this due to ‘Sarpa Dosha’ (snake gods are revered in coastal Karnataka and people are usually wary of the dosha due to the wrath of the snake god).

Meanwhile, on Monday, the girl was taken to an eye hospital at Moodbidri by her school teachers. However the doctors, without seeing the phenomenon for themselves have reportedly said that they can’t make any conclusions.

Notably, there have been many instances where doctors have found bugs, especially cockroaches making their way into people’s ear canals.