Our ambition for this section of this site is to provide relevant information and hard fact without being patronising. We'll be developing this section with you in mind over the coming weeks. In the meantime, here's some food for thought.
It's not just young children who are burnt every year with fireworks, a frightening number of teenagers are too. This short video puts it into context.
10% of burns happen to children between the ages of 5 and 14. Teenagers are often injured from illicit activities involving accelerants, such as petrol, or electrocution.
iFace is a website set up by the charity, Changing Faces, and works with young people who have disfigurements - including those suffered through burns - from all over the UK. The site "is a safe place to talk about what's going on for you and to find out how to deal with things like staring, having an op or starting a new school or college."
www.iface.org.uk/docs/index.php
"When we leave hospital: a patient's perspective of burn injury"
Burns and scalds are potentially the most serious and disfigurative of all injuries. Early, fast action immediately following a burn helps is vital. Would you know what to do if you someone got burnt? Would you know what to do for yourself if you got burnt? Here's a quick guide from the team at Great Ormond St Hospital
This is a general article outlining the nature of burns, again from Great Ormond Street Hospital website.
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