Eye on Safety, Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati Young and Healthy Archives, Spring 1996 Eye on Safety From their child's infancy on, parents are on guard for anything that can threaten the precious gift of vision.
Preventive steps taken in childhood can promote healthy eyes throughout life.
Constance West, M.D., a pediatric ophthalmologist at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, offers following tips on keeping your children's eyes safe and healthy. But whether they're using the mower or power tools, or they're around someone who's using them, it's important that they have eye protection. Protection devices with side shields should be worn around mowers, string-type weed trimmers, drills and even hammers. Working with gardening tools in the yard can be especially dangerous. String weed trimmers and lawn mowers often cause the worst problems.