[KBS I like Mornings] Full body burns at a childcare center! Because of an electric kettle? _ Dr. Woo-jin Song appeared
Registration date: 2017/09/07
A child with a full body burn at a children daycare center! It turned out that boiling water from a coffee pot was spilled and the child got a full body burn. Like this, there are many dangerous cases threatening children’s safety in our daily life. Most pediatric burns are caused not by major accidents but by carelessness at home. Children get their body burned from some items we use frequently at home, such as an iron, a coffee pot, or a water purifier with a hot water tap, all of which children can easily reach and burn themselves leading to scalding burns. Sometimes, children get a steam burn by simply touching the steam from a pressure cooker. According to Dr. Woo-jin Song, burns can cause trauma deep in their mind as well as external wounds. For most burn patients, the situation of the accident remains in their memory for a long time and often they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. In particular, he stressed, “In places where children stay, we need to pay more attention to safety. When they get burned, fast and appropriate burn emergency measures are very important.” If burns are not treated well in time, the wound can get worse. So getting a professional burn treatment at a burn-specialized hospital from the initial stage is a way to minimize the wound.

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