another from killjoys, apple bobbing guidelines, when will people learn that life is not risk free? that is what adds to our make up, so if you go apple bobbing at Halloween remember, follow the guide lines, Parwez Hossain, a consultant ophthalmologist at Southampton General Hospital, said that every year his department treats problems picked up by people playing the game,
these include scratches, infections and other eye injuries caused by hitting an apple at force when dunking heads into the water, Mr Hossain said there was also the possibility of people contracting potentially serious corneal infections from dirty water or residue of liquids if the bowls used were not cleaned properly, apple bobbing is thought to have originated in Celtic times when the Romans conquered Britain, the ubiquitous apple, representing love and fertility, became part of the Celtic Samhain festival, but worse is to come!
Mr Hossain said that other Halloween favourites like lanterns, night flares and glow sticks are also often the cause of avoidable accidents, He said: “They may seem like innocuous objects, but we have seen people turning up with nasty corneal abrasions where they have caught the edge of a lantern on Halloween or with mild ocular irritation after breaking glow sticks or night flares and suffering the effects of contents splashing into the eye,”
so I guess using both hands to hold the kids heads under water to help them get an apple is a bit of a no-no as well, now if only there were guide lines about how to tie a shoe lance, I do not want to hear about someone being strangled to death trying to tie one!
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