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Children's Eye Health & Safety Month
Eye safety is an important part of the summer. Thousands of children are treated each year for eye injuries sustained in and around the home. Generally, the most common causes of eye injuries in children age 14 and younger are caused by items such as pens and pencils, general household cleaners, furniture, flatware, cigarettes, cigars and pipes, and cosmetics. Eye injuries are also obtained participating in sports. The sports associated with the most injuries of children age 14 and younger are baseball/softball, water and pool activities, air and BB guns, basketball, and racquet sports. Remember, 90 percent of all eye injuries and 50 percent of all cases of blindness are preventable. Click onto www.preventblindness.org to learn more about children's eye safety.
Children's Eye Health
Children's eye health begins at birth. Most eye problems can be corrected if detected and treated early. Newborn eye examinations should be done in the hospital nursery. An examination at this age can detect some congenital eye problems, some of which can be serious. Between ages six months and one year, infants need to be checked for good eye health by an appropriately trained healthcare practitioner during routine well-baby office visits. Additionally, your child's vision should be tested again between ages three and four.
Possible signs of eye problems in children may include one eye that appears to cross or look out; red, crusty or swollen eye lids; or eyes that are watery and red.
Here are a few examples of when it is important to contact your healthcare practitioner for an eye specialist referral. If your child:
- repeatedly closes or covers one eye
- rubs eyes frequently
- has trouble reading or holds objects close to eyes to see
- blinks more than usual or seems cranky when doing close-up work
- complains that things are blurry or hard to see
- repeatedly squints or frowns
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ALS Association (CT MA NH RI)
Alzheimer’s Association (CT MA NH RI VT)
Alzheimer’s Services of Cape Cod & the Islands (MA)
AMC Cancer Research Center (MA)
American Cancer Society (CT MA NH RI VT)
American Diabetes Association (CT MA NH RI VT)
American Heart Association (CT MA NH VT)
American Kidney Fund (CT MA)
American Liver Foundation (CT MA NH VT)
American Lung Association (CT MA NH RI VT)
American Macular Degeneration Foundation (MA NH VT)
American Parkinson Disease Association (CT MA NH VT)
Arthritis Foundation (CT MA NH RI VT)
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (MA NH VT)
Autism Society (NH VT)
Autism Speaks (CT MA NH RI VT)
Brain Injury Association (CT MA NH RI VT)
Cancer Research Institute (CT MA NH)
Children’s Tumor Foundation (CT MA NH RI VT)
Community Health Charities of New England (CT MA NH RI VT)
Community Research Initiative of New England (MA NH)
Community Servings (MA)
Connecticut CFIDS & FM Association (CT)
Connecticut Hospice Institute (CT)
CT Oral Health Initiative (CT)
Crohn’s And Colitis Foundation Of America (CT MA NH VT)
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CT MA NH RI VT)
Dyslexia Foundation (The)(MA)
Easter Seals (CT MA NH RI VT)
Easter Seals Greater Hartford Rehabilitation Center (CT)
Epilepsy Foundation of CT( CT MA NH)
Families First Parenting Program (MA)
Hospice & Palliative Care Federation (MA NH)
Huntington's Disease Society of America (MA NH VT)
Jonathan O. Cole, MD Mental Health Consumer Resource Center (MA)
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (CT MA NH RI VT)
Kenneth B. Schwartz Center (MA)
Lea's Foundation for Leukemia Research (CT)
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (CT MA NH RI)
Lupus Foundation of America (CT MA NH VT)
Lyme Disease Foundation (CT)
March of Dimes (CT MA NH RI VT)
Mental Health Association of CT (CT)
Muscular Dystrophy Association (CT MA NH RI VT)
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America (MA NH VT)
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) (MA NH VT)
National Down Syndrome Society (MA)
National Kidney Foundation (CT MA NH VT)
National Marfan Foundation (MA)
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Central New England Chapter (CT MA NH RI VT)
New England Hemophilia Association (MA)
Planned Parenthood of Vermont (VT)
Prevent Blindness (CT MA)
Research to Prevent Blindness (MA)
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (CT MA RI)
Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, CT Chapter (CT)
Special Olympics Connecticut (CT)
Spinal Cord Injury Association, Greater Boston Chapter (MA)
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Outreach Foundation (MA NH)
United Cerebral Palsy Association (CT MA)