Although identifying a decrease in the incidence of burn injuries in children under 5 years of age, this epidemiologic analysis from Australia reveals that the incidence of chemical burns requiring hospitalization is increasing.
The authors point out that “all of the burn-injury hospitalizations reported … were preventable”, and that “most burns occurred in the home and resulted from exposure to a household hazard.”
REFERENCE: Pediatrics Vol. 127 No. 4 April 2011, pp. e971-e977