{"id":673,"date":"2013-01-07T02:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T01:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=673"},"modified":"2013-01-07T02:04:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T01:04:18","slug":"a-new-hazard-for-children-hair-straightener-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/01\/07\/a-new-hazard-for-children-hair-straightener-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"A new hazard for children: Hair straightener burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An injury prevention group in Ireland has sounded an alarm over burns from hair straighteners for children. The Children\u2019s Hospital noted that 17 children three months to nine years attended A&amp;E (ERs) in 2009-10 with hair straightener burns, 9% of the 187 children who had \u201cthermal injuries\u201d \u00a0that year. Apparently\u00a0some retailers are refusing to sell straighteners aimed at children because they are \u00a0&#8220;often brightly coloured and decorated with pictures&#8221; and so appear to be a toy. A\u00a0\u00a0campaign was \u00a0launched at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children earlier this year, following a rise in the number of children attending A&amp;E with hair straightener burns.\u00a0Hair straighteners can reach temperatures above 200 degrees and can take as long as 40 minutes to cool down.\u00a0The Home Accident Prevention Group says horrific burn injuries can occur very quickly to children. The most common location for a child to sustain a serious hair straightener burn is on the hand, but injuries have also been sustained to the head, arm and foot. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Editor<\/span>: <\/span><\/strong>I am not sure what the status of these products are in North America. Does anyone know?<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An injury prevention group in Ireland has sounded an alarm over burns from hair straighteners for children. The Children\u2019s Hospital noted that 17 children three months to nine years attended A&amp;E (ERs) in 2009-10 with hair straightener burns, 9% of the 187 children who had \u201cthermal injuries\u201d \u00a0that year. Apparently\u00a0some retailers are refusing to sell [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/01\/07\/a-new-hazard-for-children-hair-straightener-burns\/\">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":[1574],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offbeat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}