{"id":28401,"date":"2025-04-17T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/28401\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:23:22","slug":"dads-pink-eye-turned-out-to-be-killer-infection-that-left-him-looking-like-sloth-from-the-goonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/28401\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad\u2019s \u2018pink eye\u2019 turned out to be killer infection that left him looking like \u2018Sloth from The Goonies’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A DAD’S “pink eye” turned out to be a killer infection that left him looking like “Sloth from The Goonies”.<\/p>\n

Jordan Niles woke up with a sore right eye in late March.<\/p>\n

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When Jordan Niles woke up with a swollen eye, he though he had \u2018pink eye\u2019Credit: Kennedy News\"Close-up<\/a><\/p>\n

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But his face later swelled up to double its sizeCredit: Kennedy News\"Sloth<\/a><\/p>\n

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He said the infection left him looking like Sloth from The Goonies<\/p>\n

Believing it to be conjunctivitis<\/a>, he bathed it in sterile water and continued with his day.<\/p>\n

But two days later, the airport worker’s eye began to throb and swell up<\/a> so much it “felt like it was going to explode” and he couldn’t see <\/a>out of it. <\/p>\n

Shocking photos show the dad-of-two’s face swelled up to three times its usual size and his eye half-closed over, leaving him looking like Sloth from 1985 hit movie The Goonies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jordan’s wife Courtney Niles urged the 28-year-old to go to the pharmacy, and later the hospital, to get it checked out.<\/p>\n

At A&E Jordan had a CT scan, several eye tests and was hooked up to an antibiotic IV drip, where doctors confirmed he was suffering from serious bacterial infection orbital cellulitis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Docs said if the infection had spread to the back of his eye it could have cost him his sight. <\/p>\n

If it had spread to his brain, it may have potentially cost him his life. they warned. <\/p>\n

Now Jordan, who has fully recovered, is sharing his experience to ensure that blokes “listen to their wives” and get anything unusual checked out.<\/p>\n

Jordan, from Bodmin, Cornwall<\/a>, said: “I woke up on March 24 and had a bit of a sore eye and I thought ‘oh maybe it’s a bit of conjunctivitis’.<\/p>\n

“You don’t really do much but clean your eye with sterile water and hope it gets better.<\/p>\n

I was plagued by \u2018classic\u2019 hay fever symptoms – now I\u2019ve lost an eye and have a hole in my face<\/p>\n

“The next day it was a lot more swollen. My eyelid swelled massively<\/a>, it felt like my eye was going to explode.<\/p>\n

“On day three of it my wife Courtney said to go to the pharmacy, they looked at it and said I needed to go to hospital.<\/p>\n

“My face was huge, it was three or four times the size it normally is, I looked like Sloth from The Goonies.<\/p>\n

“When the doctors said it was a very serious infection that I could lose my eyesight or worst case scenario die – that’s when I was thinking, ‘oh no, it’s not conjunctivitis then’.<\/p>\n

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Jordan’s wife Courtney convinced him to get his eye seen toCredit: Kennedy News\"Close-up<\/a><\/p>\n

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It turned out to be a dangerous eye infection called orbital cellulitisCredit: Kennedy News <\/p>\n

“The doctors said I was very lucky that I went down and got treated before it spread further.<\/p>\n

“Courtney’s nagging saved my eyesight<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

After spending the day at Treliske Hospital in Treliske, Cornwall, Jordan was discharged with a week’s worth of antibiotics and was booked in for a follow-up appointment.<\/p>\n

Jordan, who was off work for a week due to the infection temporarily blinding him, is now urging people to get anything unusual checked out.<\/p>\n

Jordan said: “The hospital said it was a bacterial infection – it could have got through my sinuses or seeped through a pore in my skin.<\/p>\n

“That’s the scariest thing about it, in myself I felt OK apart from the pain in my eye.<\/p>\n

“I was off work for a week because I couldn’t see out of my eye because the swelling was over the eye.<\/p>\n

“My advice to anyone experiencing the same thing is listen to your wife and get it checked out, you can never be too careful.”<\/p>\n

Symptoms of orbital cellulitis<\/p>\n

Orbital cellulitis is a bacterial infection in the soft tissue surrounding the eye. <\/p>\n

It can be dangerous, as increased orbital pressure can cause irreversible loss of vision by obstruction of the optic nerve or retinal blood supply.<\/p>\n

Symptoms may include:<\/p>\n