More evidence "poppers" may damage eyesight

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More evidence "poppers" may damage eyesight

By Krystnell Storr (Reuters Health) - (Story has been refiled to correct Dr. Gruener's affiliation to Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in the third paragraph) A club drug and aphrodisiac since the 1970s, inhaled “poppers” are increasingly linked to eye damage - possibly due to a new formulation - according to a short report from the UK. The case study describes a 30-year-old white male who developed vision loss in both eyes after inhaling poppers. “Over the past 18 months or so I have come across almost 10 patients with poppers maculopathy, whilst several years ago I had not even heard of the condition, same with a lot of my colleagues,” said Dr. Anna Gruener, a physician at Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London. “People came up with the name ‘poppers’ as the lids or caps of the glass vials or tubes that contained the liquid had to be ‘popped off’ before the contents could be inhaled,” Gruener said.

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