[FairfieldLife] Veils cause eye-infections.?

[Jason Spock]

                        - by Dorothy Brewster       During the two years I worked as volunteer at Kabul Public Hospital, scores of women came to the Ringworm Clinic with babies and toddlers infected by their mother’s long chaderi (a head-to-toe cover with an oblong lattice over the eyes). The infections were stubborn in the absence of sunshine and antiseptic soap, in some cases persisting for years.        Eye-infections were also endemic among women in chaderi and their small children. There’s no proof that the chaderi was to blame, but when women could be persuaded to burn the infected garment and apply simple hygienic measures, infections vanished.       From personal experience I can say that trying to walk around a busy city like Kabul in a chaderi makes you feel like a blinkered horse: there is no peripheral vision. I could not see what was at my feet and needed a guide. I have seen women in chaderi stumble on uneven footpaths and even fall down manholes. There is also the annoyance of having one’s bottom pinched through the chaderi – being anonymous and blinkered it’s even harder to fight back.                                                            
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