Re: Therapy swing hazard - metallic particles falling into eyes

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Wow. I have one of those in my house. My youngest (classic autism) uses it

all the time!

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> As many of our kids use therapy swings, I thought I'd pass this on:

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> http://tinyurl.com/ybqcbpy

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> The presence of metallic foreign bodies in the eye is an uncommon injury in

children, so much so that two children with autism presenting with this injury

led to detective work by two physicians that found the common cause. An article

published in the current issue of the Journal of AAPOS, the Official Publication

of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, documents

how a physician from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Bnei-Zion

Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; and another from the Cincinnati Children's

Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Cincinnati, OH, discovered that therapeutic

swings, commonly used for patients with autism-spectrum disorders, were shedding

metallic particles directly into the eyes of the children.

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