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Every day, about 300 young children with burn injuries are taken to emergency rooms.
They are not children who were playing with matches or running around a campfire, they were burned with hot, scalding water.
Scald burns (caused by hot liquids or steam) are the most common burn injury among children age 4 and younger. In 2003, U.S. hospitals treated an estimated 16,000 children under 5 for scalds, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
These number are distressing but what is more upsetting is knowing that these burns could have been prevented because 95% of them happen in the home.
I recently was watching a program with new home ideas and this was one of them. It is a LED light that attaches to your faucet and lights the water blue. Very cool and will get yoru kids to wash their hands longer then .07 seconds. The best part of this faucet light is that the color of the water turns red if the temperature of the water gets up to 89 degrees.
This way kids can see that it is hot and not to touch the water. The best part? It is cheap at $19.99.
Maybe this will help a child not be badly burned.
LED faucet lights, scalds, burns, children and burns, kids, children, scalding water, parenting ideas
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