ST. LOUIS — You hear it every year: the loud bangs of fireworks, and the warnings from doctors against them.
“Fireworks are explosives: just like you wouldn't let kids play with dynamite or open flame, we don't recommend kids being around people playing with fireworks or they themselves play with fireworks,” said Dr. Kathryn Spectorsky, assistant professor of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine and pediatrician at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Even if you’ve been warned before, you might not realize how serious it is.
“It's a substantial number of children who are injured every year, and there are deaths every year,” she said.
Dr. Spectorsky pointed to statistics that show nationally about 10,000 people are hurt from fireworks each year, about a third of them are younger than 15; Already this year, two kids have gone to St. Louis Children's Hospital with serious fireworks injuries.
“These injuries can be as far as loss of a limb or loss of an eye. And they range anywhere from kind of superficial burns to third-degree burns,” she explained.
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