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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/active-lives-need-active-eye-protection-know-your-risks/">Active Eyes Need Active Protection</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 14, 2008 at 10:00 AM by Kathleen Blanchard</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Warm weather allows us to enjoy increased sports and other outdoor activities. Many of these activities can lead to eye injuries. Examples include softball, baseball, and water polo. Annual eye injuries occur primarily in those under age thirty, but anyone is at risk. From 1992 to 2001, the estimate of annual eye injuries in the United States was two million, and more than forty thousand of those resulted in permanent visual impairment. It’s important to think about eye safety when you’re in the garden, mowing the lawn, and even trimming the hedges.&nbsp; Enthusiastic outdoor activity of any type can set us up for eye injuries. Abrasions to the cornea are the most common eye injury, and probably get the least attention. Abrasions can occur from a foreign body, such as debris under a contact lens, attacks from…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/active-lives-need-active-eye-protection-know-your-risks/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/active-lives-need-active-eye-protection-know-your-risks/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/active-lives-need-active-eye-protection-know-your-risks/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/active-lives-need-active-eye-protection-know-your-risks/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/injury-rehab/">injury-rehab</a><br /><br /> </P>