Nasolacrimal obstruction in a child: Ascaris lumbricoides as an unusual cause

Abstract

This article describes an unusual case of an obstruction of the tear ducts caused by Ascaris lumbricoides in an one-year-old child, and presents a brief report of some other cases in the medical literature, emphasizing the necessity of considering helminths as a cause of this obstruction in malnourished children who live in areas with a high prevalence of intestinal parasistes.

Lacrimal obstruction; Ascaris; Epiphora