This is the moment doctors discover a bee sting in the eyeball was the reason a baby had been suffering from red eyes for a month.

His parents had taken the child named Huahua to hospital after noticing the skin around his eyes had become red and swollen.

But they did not take the child to an ophthalmologist as the eye itself was the problem.

The parents said that after the visit, the child quietened down, but the redness around the eye did not go away and in the end, they booked an appointment with the hospital’s ophthalmology department for treatment near their home in Hangzhou, the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China.

It was only when they were there that the doctors discovered the bee sting still wedged like a “needle” hidden in Huahua’s right cornea.

It was embedded between the cornea and the conjunctiva, and the stinger was wrapped in the conjunctiva, stimulating repeated inflammation and congestion of the conjunctiva, and the doctor arranged the surgery to remove the bee sting immediately.

Speaking about the operation medics said that it was difficult to operate because of the location of the sting, but as it had not pierced all the way into the eyeball there was a low risk infection or further damage.

Online commentators like ‘User 6286859426’ said: “Fortunately, the child has beautiful eyes.”