Prevention and emergency treatment of burns in children

In recent years, the number of children’s burns has increased, not only to the children themselves caused injury, but also to the family, society has brought a different degree of burden, attention to the children’s burns after the correct treatment to reduce the injury, to promote the early healing of the wound is very helpful. First, the characteristics of children’s burns: 1, burn cases occur in summer and winter, spring and fall relatively less. With the summer wearing thin clothes, children’s activities, high ambient temperatures, flammable items are more likely to burn related, often burns are more serious. In winter, people use more heating supplies, children wear heavy clothes, activities and other factors related to the inconvenience. 2, age characteristics: 1 ~ 2 years old just learned to walk, mobile, walking stability is poor, curiosity is strong, do not realize the danger. Most common is the child pick over the hot water cup, kettle, hot rice bowl or fall sitting on the hot liquid and injury. 2 ~ 5 years old children with a large range of activities, curiosity, lively and active, like to run after each other or even play, and the nervous system is not yet well developed, the stability of the activities of the poorer avoidance of the reaction is slow, and the age of the children are interested in new things often imitating adults or TV commercials, firecrackers, play with fire, in the custody of the neglect, it is easy to cause burns, but not the case of the fire. 5~10 years old children’s outdoor activities increase, easy to occur electric burns and chemical burns. 3, pediatric burns of the environment: statistics of children’s burns, 90% from the family. Family is the main place to cause pediatric burns, the cause of three main aspects: First, the heat source such as hot water bottles, kettles, hot dishes, stoves, etc. improperly placed, the second is the electrical power supply and other protection is not appropriate, the children play with household electrical appliances or touch the electric socket injuries. Third, adults lack of vigilance, negligent care. 4, injury characteristics: pediatric thin skin, delicate tissues, tissues and organs are not yet mature, poor tolerance for burns, in the same heat, the degree of burns than adults, high incidence of disability and deformity. Second, the prevention of countermeasures 1, prevention of scalding hot liquid, children’s parents should be placed properly in the family easy to cause burns in the items, such as hot water bottles, kettles, hot soup, hot dishes, to prevent children from grabbing or pulling to the bathing should be the first to put cold water and then heated water, the use of hot-water bags, the temperature of the water should not be too high, and wrapped in a cloth, prohibit children alone in the family to avoid the unfortunate occurrence. 2, the prevention of flame burns, mainly due to children playing with fire or firecrackers ignited clothes, generally children in dangerous conditions lack of self-help measures to burn, so we must explain to the children to play with the dangers and the necessary knowledge of self-help. Prohibit children to play with fire, especially where there are flammable things placed, such as alcohol, gasoline, diesel fuel, prohibit firecrackers, to prevent fires. 3, the prevention of electrical burns, indoor sockets, switch installation to have the necessary precautions to avoid pediatric touch, while strengthening the safety education on electricity, prohibit touching electric sockets and wires, reduce the incidence of burns. Third, the correct treatment of injuries: 1, referred to as five words: “brewing off the lid to send”. The content is that children accidentally burned should be quickly removed from the heat source, small and medium-sized burns immediately rinse with cold water for 15-30 minutes, can play a pain, reduce the degree of burns, wash away the trauma on the dirt and microorganisms, reduce the chances of secondary infection and so on. You can also immerse the burned limb in water while removing the clothing, shoes and socks from the injured area. Then simply cover it and immediately send it to the hospital to receive regular treatment. 2.Keep the blister skin intact as much as possible to minimize the chance of infection. 3, prohibit the external application of colored creams or drugs such as gentian violet, ointment, toothpaste, etc., so as not to impede the determination of the depth of the wound, and in the process of debridement will increase the pain of the child.