Learn to Stop Burns!
The Burns Unit, Kids Health and Kidsafe NSW have been working together to produce an interactive burns prevention program, designed for use with school aged students and their parents. The game allows entry to a virtual home where individual rooms may be navigated to search for the potential burn dangers in everyday life.
Burns and Scalds Prevention
Around 4,600 children under five years of age go to hospital emergency departments each year in Australia for treatments of burns and scalds and a further 1,450 are admitted for more intensive treatment. These can be caused by a vast number of situations.
We would like to highlight several issues. These include:
· Hot beverages and or food
· Hot water from taps
· Children's Nightwear
There is also a fact sheet on the prevention of scalds that can be downloaded by clicking on the following link - scalds fact sheet
The Children's Hospital Westmead have produced a fact sheet titled Burns and Scalds - Burn Care Advice
Here is some more detailed information about the issues mentioned above:
For small babies, burns caused when their drinks or food has been heated in the microwave have increased. This type of injury has resulted in full thickness burns to the baby's mouth.
Safer ways to warm your babies bottles and their food include:





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