原来不止一个人被烫伤
Microwave ovens should display prominent warnings about the dangers of
exploding eggs, says a team of opthalmologists in the UK.
The opthalmologists made the appeal in a letter to the British Medical
Journal. The letter described the case of a nine-year-old girl who reheated
a boiled egg in a microwave for 40 seconds. About 30 seconds later, when she
was carrying the egg, the egg exploded, hitting her in the right eye and
face.
The shrapnel from the scalding egg tore open her cornea, the transparent
coating that covers the iris and pupil, and caused the lens of her eye to
cloud over so she could see only hand movements. Several months later, her
vision was restored, but only after two operations in which her cornea was
stitched and her damaged lens replaced with a plastic one.
Microwave manufacturers do warn people to pierce intact eggs several times
before heating them. But the warnings appear in leaflets that many consumers
toss aside without notice, says Saurabh Goyal, an opthalmologist at Queen
Mary's Hospital in Kent, UK, and one of the letter's authors.
"If they put warnings on the microwaves themselves, people may be more aware
of the dangers of microwaving food that has a closed shell," Goyal told New
Scientist.
