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Since the corona more and more children are being harmed by this thing
A sharp increase in the proportion of children who come to hospitals with eye burns as a result of contact with chemicals.
Experts explain that it is a side effect of the corona that has caused more children to be exposed to disinfectants
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Friday, 29 January 2021, 07:14
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A 7-fold increase in the number of children affected by chemical burns to the eyes due to alcohol.
Mother enters emergency room with toddler on her hands (Photo: ShutterStock)
For a year now, alcohol and disinfectants have been found in every home and every bag, far more than they were before the outbreak of the corona plague, and a new report published these days reveals how dangerous the consequences of this fact are for children.
The study, published in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology, found that there was a 7-fold increase in cases of children coming to the hospital with eye burns as a result of exposure to chemicals - and specifically - to alcohol.
The study refers to data from France, and shows how the number of cases of eye burns in children as a result of exposure to chemicals was 1.3 percent of all cases of eye burns in 2019, while in 2020 this figure rose to 9.9 percent.
If in 2019 only one toddler was hospitalized as a result of a hand sanitizer that penetrated his eyes, then in 2020 no less than 16 toddlers and children were hospitalized for this reason.
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Another study brought up similar findings in India.
There, two of the children included in the studies needed a corneal transplant to save their eyes and 6 children suffered from corneal ulcers, according to a report on the Gizmodo website.
The automatic facilities are not adapted to the height of children.
Automatic device for disinfecting hands on the bus (Photo: official website, Afikim)
Hand sanitizer products usually contain ethanol which can destroy corneal cells and cause blindness.
The researchers noted in their study that the reason for the increase in vulnerability is not only the expected scenario of children touching the eyes before the disinfectant has dried and evaporated, but that the children's height sometimes causes the material to be accidentally sprayed directly into their face when trying to operate automatic hand sanitizers.
This is because these facilities are not adapted to the height of children.
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"Given the widespread use of hand sanitizers in public places during this period, it is only expected that young children will be attracted to these facilities, and many are unintentionally designed in a way that greatly facilitates contact between chemicals or soap and children's eyes," the researchers wrote.
They further noted that a combination of soap and water is both more effective for cleaning hands and also safer in contact with the eyes.
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