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Syed N Ali1, Greg O'Toole, Michael Tyler

  • 1Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, Bucks, UK.

The Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation
|September 9, 2004
PubMed

In recent years numerous infants have been treated at Stoke Mandeville Hospital's Burns' Unit for scalds sustained in accidents that occurred during the preparation of warm milk. These were significant burns affecting young children with susceptibly thin skin that often resulted in the injured child requiring a long stay in hospital. Frequently, formal intravenous fluid resuscitation was required as was burn excision and skin grafting. We recommend the use of milk bottle warmer to avoid all the hazards associated with use of different techniques of warming milk bottle.

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