An eye doctor who serves northeast Iowa dreads being on call during the Fourth of July, as she says there’s always a case of someone being blinded by fireworks.
Dr. Anna Kitzmann, an ophthalmologist at the Emplify Health by Gundersen Clinic in Decorah, says fireworks can cause devastating injuries to the hands, face and especially to the eyes.
“We see everything from mild eye injuries to maybe just a scratch on the surface of the eye,” Kitzmann says, “to very serious eye injuries that result in blindness and even loss of the eyeball.”…