{"id":315,"date":"2010-06-27T23:03:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T13:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=315"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:05:57","slug":"burns-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/burns-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Burns warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hecqgeihDwI.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/a.blip.tv\/api.swf#hecqgeihDwI\" style=\"display:none\"><\/embed><br \/>\nA spate of burns among children has prompted a warning to parents to be more vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-month-old girl is recovering in the Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital after being scalded with a hot cup of tea.\u00a0Elle reached up to a kitchen bench to grab\u00a0her dad&#8217;s cup and now\u00a0has first, second and third degree burns to seven percent of her body. She went into shock as her dad rushed her into the shower to help alleviate some of the pain.\u00a0Ella was then rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>She will require ongoing treatment and have scars for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital nurse Kathy Bicknell says if a child does suffer burns, parents should hold the area where the child has suffered a burn under cold running water for 20 minutes, while keeping the rest of the child warm.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy children\u00a0each year are admitted to the hospital for burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of burns among children has prompted a warning to parents to be more vigilant. An 18-month-old girl is recovering in the Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital after being scalded with a hot cup of tea.\u00a0Elle reached up to a kitchen bench to grab\u00a0her dad&#8217;s cup and now\u00a0has first, second and third degree burns to seven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/burns-warning\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}