THERAPEUTIC SWING CAUSES ISSUES FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM USING IT

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Therapeutic swing for Theraupetic Swing used with children having autism-spectrum disorder sheds metallic particles directly into eyes of children7. April 2010 05:38

Study shows therapeutic swings for autism-spectrum disorder patients pose danger

The presence of metallic foreign bodies in the eye is an uncommon injury in children, so much so that two children with autism presenting with this injury led to detective work by two physicians that found the common cause. An article published in the current issue of the Journal of AAPOS, the Official Publication of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, documents how a physician from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Bnei-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; and another from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Cincinnati, OH, discovered that therapeutic swings, commonly used for patients with autism-spectrum disorders, were shedding metallic particles directly into the eyes of the children.

The first patient, an 8-year-old boy, was found to have a corneal metallic foreign body in the right cornea. Previously he had had a corneal metallic foreign body removed by another physician. A meticulous history of the child's activities, taken after this recurrence, revealed that the child spent hours each day on a home therapeutic swing with metallic suspensions.

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