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Ophthalmologists Issues Safety Warning on Toy
Purchases
The American Academy of Ophthalmologists
wants parents to keep a wary eye out for toys that
might not be as safe as they should be as they shop
this holiday season. |
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The group, as might
be expected, is especially leery of things with
points and edges that can puncture the skin or eyes.
And it is concerned about things that shoot objects
into the air, which have the capacity to lacerate
skin, deafen or blind a child - these include pellet
guns, water balloons, bows and arrows, darts,
slingshots and potato guns. One new worry of the
group this year is the laser pointer, a device that
some kids use to bother other people by point a
laser beam at them. Several communities have banned
the devices, both because |
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of their obnoxious nature
and the fact that it's not known what detriment
pointing a laser beam at someone can do.
The most important way for
parents and caregivers to avoid having their child become one of
the 150,000 children injured by toys each year is for them to
use sensible precautions and common sense, the academy says. A
lot of heartache and medical bills can be saved if parents read
the labels of products to make sure they have American
Society for Testing and Materials or Consumer Product Safety
Commission approval, and that the toys they buy are
appropriate to the age of the children receiving them.
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