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Watching fireworks with kids is exciting, but they can be dangerous. According to Todd Zimmerman, D.O., a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Pediatrix® Emergency Medicine of Nevada, fireworks can pose a major risk to children in particular. Children are susceptible to various types of injuries, including burns, bodily injury, eye trauma or vision loss and hearing damage. “As a pediatric emergency medicine physician for 20 years, I have seen children lose fingers and also sustain permanent vision loss from fireworks,” he shared. If you’re injured by fireworks, act promptly. “If you sustain any injury from fireworks you should go to the nearest emergency room as soon as possible,” said Dr. Zimmerman.
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