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01-03-2018, 08:15 PM
Yes, glitter's fun. But, it could land you in the emergency room.
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Glitter is literally everywhere right now. It's on our Instagram feeds, in our holiday parcels, and it's even all over our faces and bodies.*
But, one woman's run-in with a clump of glitter from a Christmas card landed her in the emergency room with a lesion in her cornea.*
SEE ALSO: Women pose naked, covered in glitter for body positive Instagram project (http://mashable.com/2017/11/09/positively-glittered-instagram-account/)
A British Medical Journal (BMJ) case study sent to Mashable reports that a 49-year-old woman went to hospital because her eye was painful, red, and her visual acuity was significantly reduced. During an initial examination, doctors found a lesion in the cornea "just inferior to the visual axis."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/03/glitter-cornea-lesion/)
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Glitter is literally everywhere right now. It's on our Instagram feeds, in our holiday parcels, and it's even all over our faces and bodies.*
But, one woman's run-in with a clump of glitter from a Christmas card landed her in the emergency room with a lesion in her cornea.*
SEE ALSO: Women pose naked, covered in glitter for body positive Instagram project (http://mashable.com/2017/11/09/positively-glittered-instagram-account/)
A British Medical Journal (BMJ) case study sent to Mashable reports that a 49-year-old woman went to hospital because her eye was painful, red, and her visual acuity was significantly reduced. During an initial examination, doctors found a lesion in the cornea "just inferior to the visual axis."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/03/glitter-cornea-lesion/)
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