Keratoconjunctivitis after exposure to party foam
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Ramin Baradaran-Dilmaghani, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Vienna, Allg Krankenhaus, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
- Accepted 10 March 1997
Editor,—Foam parties are becoming an increasingly popular method of enhancing entertainment at dance parties and discotheques. Foam is usually shot out of a cannon onto people on the dance floor who then dance covered in foam. The effects of this foam have hardly ever been examined.1 We would like to report three patients who had a keratoconjunctivitis and corneal epithelial defect as a result of having foam sprayed in their eyes.
CASE REPORT
Three patients arrived at the emergency room …
