Yes, glitter’s fun. But, it could land you in the emergency room.

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. 

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…

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