Caution – burn!
There are on average 35 children from 0 to 18 years old on therapy in burns department in the Republican Child Hospital Emilian Cotsaga Burning injuries pose high risk for health. Even singes which have big damage area are threatening child’s life, as for deep burns, it can lead to disability from very young age.
Toddlers usually get burns with hot liquids: milk, tea, soup, water. It happens due to lack of necessary attention. Often parents put child in hot tub without checking water’s temperature. There are a lot of infant’s burn’s cases, when parents try to warm them with hot-water bottle without taking in consideration that baby’s skin is much more sensitive to high temperature, then adult skin.
Children from 2 years old begin to be very active and curious. Steam, iron, stove, wall outlets, wires became attractive to them. They want to touch everything, but the result is sad: deep burns, disfiguring scars, deformation and sometimes amputation of one or several fingers.
Preschoolers, especially schoolchild has injuries from fire burns. It’s a pyrotechnical pastime with gunpowder, high explosive things, gasoline, kerosene and solar oil. These kinds of interactions with flammable substance in most of the cases have sad effects.
On deep burns spots especially on the arm fingers or foot fingers became rough scars, which limit their ability to move, creates difficulties in blood flows, and creates obstacle in normal child development. To get rid of the burn consequences is very difficult. Some medications have a very reliable reputation in burn scars treatment: Kenalgon 40, Dermatix, Contractubex, Epi-Derm. Unfortunately kids can’t evaluate high risks of the fire, hot liquids, chemicals, electricity. Adults must stop all dangerous games, and prevent an eventual threat.
And even if an accident happened and the child has suffered a burn, don’t treat him by yourself. Don’t apply different kind of fat, or don’t use items that you have in your home.
In cases when the burs area on hands or legs is limited, immediately place the hand or leg for several minutes in running cold water. After that carefully dry skin with a soft towel or cloth, bandage a visit immediately you doctor.
We must say that even on small area, burns can generate shocks for small children and even death. In cases of substantial burns, immediately take all the clothes from the victim. Wrap the child in a clean bed sheet and urgently go to the hospital or call the emergency. This is necessary because a burn shock can be identified only by the doctor and needs an intensive care in the hospital.
Due to the facts that anti-germs immunity in child age is not fully developed, the infection in the body trough affected area can lead to a blood infection. In order to prevent this kind of developments, it is necessary to take all appropriate steps that can be performed only in hospitals.
Statistics for 2009 in Moldova:
Children under age 1 – 145 cases
Children between ages 1-18 – 921 cases
Types of trauma during this period:
Thermal burn with a hot liquid |
396 |
Thermal burn caused by fire |
134 |
Contact thermal burn |
68 |
Traumas caused by electrical burns |
44 |
Chemical burns |
6 |
Sun burns |
4 |
Burns in childhood is a serous trauma. Parents are in charge of this accidents because they lost vigilance. Remember these dear parents!
Date was collected from the research of the associate professor of the surgery faculty of the Medical Institute in Tumeni. A.N. Dubeaghi
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