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Emergency eye care
April 1st 2004

Kays News, the regular newsletter from Kays Medical, details how chemical splash treatment, diphoterine, helped save the sight of an employee at a drumming plant.

Despite being fully protected, the worker came into contact with the highly toxic and carcinogenic dimethylsulphate while carrying out routine maintenance work. The result was an immediate reddening of his eyes, with the potential for permanent visual damage.

The company keeps diphoterine in its first aid kits and the neutraliser was applied immediately to the eyes. Within minutes the redness had disappeared.

As a precaution, the employee was taken to hospital where a ph test proved neutral, indicating that the diphoterine had turned a potentially serious incident into a near miss.

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