Reports detail pediatric eye injuries related to hand sanitizerAs the pandemic has made hand sanitizer ubiquitous, perhaps it was inevitable that clinicians would report sanitizer-related eye injuries in children.
Two brief studies published yesterday in JAMA Ophthalmology look into this topic, with the first finding a sevenfold year-to-year increase in sanitizer/eye exposure in French children from April to August, and the second looking at two cases of toxic keratopathy (cornea injury).Overall, less chemical eye splatter cases were reported to the French Poison Control Centers from April to August 2020 than in the same months the year prior (2,336 [2.2% of pediatric calls] vs 2,553 [4.2%]), according to the first study.