Protecting your vision during 4th of July festivities

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fireworks are a cardinal portion of Independence Day celebrations, with families usually readying to headdress disconnected the vacation with the shooting sparks arsenic they airy up the nighttime sky.

While fireworks tin beryllium fun, they tin besides beryllium unsafe to our vision.

"Of the fireworks injuries, arsenic you tin imagine, a batch of them impact the eyes," said Dr. Mehdi Ghajar, an ophthalmologist with the Eye Medical Center successful Northeast Fresno. "Annually, we cognize that astir 13,000 to 15,000 oculus injuries occur."

Those injuries tin scope from insignificant to severe. Dr. Ghajar explains that the astir important oculus harm tin permanently impact however we spot oregon adjacent pb to imaginativeness loss.

"Our ocular aboveground is afloat of stem cells that repair themselves each day," said Dr. Ghajar. "If you get a vigor wounded to those stem cells oregon a chemic injury, that tin beryllium precise unsafe and long-lasting. Other injuries that are much superior than that are penetrating injuries."

That's wherefore it's captious for radical to enactment alert of their surroundings, particularly erstwhile celebrating with household and friends with your ain backyard display.

"A batch of radical who are injured by fireworks are bystanders; they are not the ones lighting the fireworks," said Dr. Ghajar.

The Eye Medical Center sees galore patients with fireworks-related injuries. Dr. Ghajar urges radical who endure a firework-related wounded to the oculus to spell to an exigency country and get treated close away.

"The sooner your oculus wounded is addressed, the much chances of healing and repair," said Dr. Ghajar.

If you program to airy up harmless and sane fireworks during the holiday, doctors suggest taking precautions.

"The astir important happening is to travel the instructions," said Dr. Ghajar, "Limit yourself to ineligible fireworks, and if you're going to beryllium the 1 mounting the fireworks, I would usage the protective goggles."

Dr. Ghajar besides says to marque definite you're acold distant erstwhile the fireworks spell disconnected and to support the sparklers distant from young kids.

But the champion mode to drawback the shooting sparks is to spot it professionally done.

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