title: Pediatric burns due to hot water from water dispenser: a neglected issue that should be highly concerned.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  More and more Chinese drink hot water from water dispensers while many children were scalded due to this change. The present study aimed to propose a feasible strategy for prevention.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study was conducted for all water dispensers related pediatric burns admitted to Changhai Hospital from January 2005 to December 2009.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The number of new cases and incidences of pediatric burns due to hot water from water dispensers was significantly increasing year after year. In the total 238 involved cases, 175 cases happened on males and 78.9% were at the age of 1 - 4 years. The burn areas were mainly located in upper extremities. All water dispensers in the surveyed families had no isolate protection devices and 85.2% of their locations were easy for children to reach. Nearly half of the children were in the same room with their guardians when injured. Total 196 burned children were playing the taps of water dispensers before injured, unfortunately, 80.6% of them have not been stopped until burned.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As the kind of burns is quite serious and with bad outcome, some recommendations should be followed, such as buying water dispensers with protection devices, keeping children from touching them and so on.
authors.affiliation: Department of Burn Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Hui-Jun
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Xi
authors.forename: Jia-Lin
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Hong-Tai
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Shi-Hui
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Kai-Yang
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Lü
authors.forename: Zhao-Fan
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Xia
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home; D000293:Adolescent; D002056:Burns / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D014867:Water