Pet owners know there’s nothing better than a good cuddle with your furry loved one, but one woman has shared a terrifying warning after developing an eye infection from her cat.
Alexandra Sedlak shared the PSA, urging people to be careful – or to even wear goggles if you sleep around pets at nights.
‘You’re gonna want to hear this,’ the cat-owner warned. ‘If you have any interest in your health or saving your eyeballs.’
Alexandra assured viewers the scary infection didn’t come from the cat’s claws – but when her car sneezed, retelling the story to TikTok.
The content creator explained she was falling sleep on her couch on Christmas a few years ago, when her cat came up to her and touched her nose with hers.
‘It’s really sweet and she’s like getting sleepy and she’s doing the like slow blink, looking into my eyes, and I’m feeling so much love for her,’ she recalled.
Then, out of nowhere, her cat sneezed directly into her eye.
‘Mostly I was just shocked and disgusted, and I took my hand and wiped my eye and wasn’t going to mess with it, and [try to fall asleep] straight away’ she explained.
Alexandra Sedlak shared the PSA, urging people to be careful – or to even wear goggles if you sleep around pets at nights (stock image)
However, Alexandra said her body ‘wouldn’t let’ her fall asleep.
‘Do you know what happens when an animal sneezes straight into your unprotected eye?’ she asked.
‘I literally felt like – and I am not exaggerating – I felt like my body was rejecting my eye,’ she said.
‘I felt as though my eye was getting pushed out of it’s socket,’ she continued. ‘Because that’s how quickly it got infected.’
According to Alexandra, the infection set in within ‘seconds.’
‘Immediately I knew something was wrong,’ the cautious woman explained.
‘I went into full blown panic,’ she admitted. ‘I was terrified I was going to lose my eye.’
Alexandra spoke with her mom, who suggested she try eye drops after washing her eyes out with water.
The cat-lover said her eye bruised and was swollen, leaving her unable to open her eye for a few days.
Alexandra spoke with her mom, who suggested she try eye drops after washing her eyes out with water (stock image)
Users commented on the video, many detailing their own experiences
‘I didn’t go out in public, it looked like I had been punched in the eye,’ she said.
She added the steps she took immediately ‘preserved her eye.’
‘I know that sounds dramatic,’ she acknowledged. ‘Believe me, if I hadn’t gone through this myself I would think it’s just the most dramatic story ever.’
She captioned video: ‘We still snuggle but I wear goggles.’
Users detailed their own experiences in the video comments.
‘Not an infection, it’s allergies. There are eye drops for it use them that’s what I do for my allergies,’ one user wrote.
‘Got pinkeye one time from my dog sneezing on my face,’ shared someone else.
‘Most people are allergic to the saliva on cats if they are allergic.. infections take days or at least hours to form,’ chimed in another.
According to an LA Times article, if a cat sneezes into a person’s eye, it can cause an eye infection.
‘I would recommend that you wash your hands thoroughly after handling your sneezing cats and try not to let them sneeze into your face,’ Dr Glenn Ericson wrote in the piece.
‘Fortunately, the eye infection is treatable with antibiotics.’
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