{"id":1495,"date":"2014-12-16T23:57:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2014-12-16T23:57:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:57:01","slug":"preventing-clothing-related-burns-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2014\/12\/16\/preventing-clothing-related-burns-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing clothing-related burns in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burn injuries are dreadful for any person\u00a0of any age, but arguably they are most horrific for our most vulnerable:\u00a0children. In Australia as in many other countries, we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.productsafety.gov.au\/content\/index.phtml\/itemId\/973519\">mandatory standards <\/a>which regulate the design and labelling of children&#8217;s nightwear. Having grown up in a rural area where we heated our house (our melted marshmallows and burnt our toast) via an open fireplace, I am well aware how quickly clothing can catch fire. Therefore preventing these injuries is of vital importance. To prevent, we must understand, therefore I was pleased to see an interesting article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25435488\">Harvey, Connolley and Harvey <\/a>(see http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25435488).<\/p>\n<p>The authors examined the\u00a0clothing-burn-related hospitalisation data for the entire state of New South Wales from 1998-2013 inclusively, and report the following clothing-related burn statistics:<\/p>\n<p>* 18% of burns were nightwear-related (despite our mandatory legislation)<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0exposure to open flame the most common\u00a0mechanism (open fire, cooking)<\/p>\n<p>* 25% of clothing-related burn hospitalisations occurred amongst children aged 5-14 years<\/p>\n<p>* nightwear-related burns decreased by approximately 7% per year, compared to other clothing (reduction of approximately 2% per year)<\/p>\n<p>* accelerant use was reported in 27% of cases<\/p>\n<p>Whilst difficulties with coding data in official records were identified, which leads to underestimation of the clothing-related burns burden for all persons, including children, the authors note the reduction in burns as a result of the mandatory legislation introduced in 1987. Further legislative efforts targeting all clothing, and education of parents and extended family members regarding clothing-related burns risk for children is also recommended, and these findings can help us all in our injury prevention efforts as we keep safe over the festive season.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burn injuries are dreadful for any person\u00a0of any age, but arguably they are most horrific for our most vulnerable:\u00a0children. In Australia as in many other countries, we have mandatory standards which regulate the design and labelling of children&#8217;s nightwear. Having grown up in a rural area where we heated our house (our melted marshmallows and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2014\/12\/16\/preventing-clothing-related-burns-in-children\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2732,2734,1574,2724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burns","category-children","category-offbeat","category-splinters-fragments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}