Public education is needed to help prevent toxic keratitis after hair washing with crushed custard apple seeds to remove head lice, a common practice in developing countries, according to a study.
A retrospective review over a 3-year period of patients presenting to the Aravind Eye Hospital in India with toxic keratitis and a clear history of crushed custard apple seed application identified 19 patients with acute disease either unilaterally or bilaterally.
“We hypothesized that toxic keratopathy was due to either toxic or mechanical insult of the crushed custard apple seeds (Read more...)
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