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According to him, the first step in helping to prevent children from getting burns is to understand the common causes of burns, which include: Liquid injuries (usually scalds) from steam, hot bath water, coffee (and other hot drinks), hot foods and cooking liquids; contact with flames (from the cooker or BBQ) or hot objects (such as clothes irons, curling irons or hair straighteners); chemical burns from swallowing liquids and items such as drain cleaner or watch batteries, or spilling chemicals, such as bleach, onto the skin; electrical burns from biting on electrical cords or sticking fingers or objects into electrical outlets; and overexposure to the sun.

To treat a burn or scald, Dr Saifeldeen recommends to immediately cool the area, soaking the burn under cool, not cold, water as well as loosely cover the burn or wound.

"He had 15% scalds which had not been treated for three months but we were able to do skin grafts on a large portion of the scald."

Burns and scalds are damage to the skin caused by heat.

He was treated for scalds to his cheek before being allowed home.

The more common modes of burns in our study were scalds, flame, electric--least was by chemical burns (Figure 3).

She later died at Whiston regional burns unit on Wirral and the scalds were a contributory factor.

RESEARCH by Cardiff University has found that one-year-olds have up to 10 times more burns and scalds than older children.

The researchers, who looked at the cases of 1,215 children under the age of 16, found that those children who were just a year old sustained 10 times as many burns and scalds as older children.

To treat burns or scalds in the future immediately put the affected area under running cold water to reduce the heat in the skin.

While three quarters of victims are younger than five years old, older people are at a greater risk of dying as a result of hot water scalds.

Scalds, which are burns attributed to hot liquids or steam, account for 33%-58% of all patients hospitalized for burns in the United States (1-3).

A TODDLER was airlifted to hospital on Christmas Eve after suffering scalds from a hot drink.