Contact Lens Injury Leading Cause Of Medical Device Emergency Visits Among US Children

A government report says that contact lens injury is the leading cause of over 70,000 emergency department (ED) visits every year for medical device-associated injury among US children and that more public health initiatives are needed to prevent such easily averted injuries in children, which are often due to wearing lenses for too long and not cleaning them properly…

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Filed under: Eye Health on July 27th, 2010