Hundreds of American teenagers suffer from eye diseases caused by injuries while playing paintball - a paramilitary entertainment in which bullets are filled with paint.

Basically, children are injured in places that do not have appropriate permits for games, where they do not require players to observe precautions - that is, wear protective suits and masks that close their eyes.

Between 1997 and 2000, the number of injuries among adolescents reached 2. 800 cases. Guns that are used during the game, act with compressed gas - firing "bullets", stuffed with paint. During the flight, bullets gain enough speed to cause serious damage when they hit the eye area. That is why the doctors again and again call on all players to take into account the danger of the event and not to go to the "battlefield" without the necessary equipment of medicus. En.

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