In a nearly 5-month period in mid-2020, seven times more pediatric cases of alcohol-based hand sanitizer ocular exposures were recorded compared with the previous year, according to a study in France.
A retrospective case series from April 1 to August 24, 2020, found a 9.9% rate of alcohol-based hand sanitizer ocular exposures reported to French poison control centers compared with 1.3% in 2019 (P < .001), as well as more admissions to an eye hospital for exposures (16 cases in 2020 vs. one case in 2019) (P < .001). However, the proportion of calls to the poison control centers due to
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