{"id":9492,"date":"2022-04-08T10:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:59:08","slug":"calebs-rch-high-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/calebs-rch-high-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital specialists answer a burning need"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words:<\/strong>\u00a0Brigid O\u2019Connell
\nPhoto:<\/strong>\u00a0Alex Coppel<\/p>\n

As the adults hurried about their chores just before dinner, Caleb Sinaga had his eye on his next plaything.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Caleb Sinaga, 11 months, is recovering from a burns accident with the help of his parents. Picture: Alex Coppel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 11-month-old was a speedy crawler, and had mastered hoisting himself into standing position by pulling himself up on the couch or table.<\/p>\n

So when a freshly made cup of tea was sitting in reach on the coffee table, he had poured it over himself before anyone could intervene.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitially Caleb wasn\u2019t too close to the tea. But everyone is busy, it\u2019s the end of the day, everyone is rushing around. We weren\u2019t looking and when you look he\u2019s already grabbing the cup of hot tea,\u201d said mum Ramona Attamimi.<\/p>\n

\u201cI rushed to run water over it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother-in-law, who was there, brought some ointment to put on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was red by then. I didn\u2019t know what to do with burns. I\u2019d never had them before. I didn\u2019t know how severe it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI called the maternal child health nurse. They said because it\u2019s on his face and he\u2019s a baby, it\u2019s better to bring him to ED.\u201d<\/p>\n

After taking him to their local hospital, they were transferred to The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital for ongoing outpatient care for the second degree burns.<\/p>\n

Specialist nurses and plastic surgeons work with each child until the wounds have sufficiently healed, ahead of physiotherapists managing their longer term care \u2013 usually over months or years \u2013 to reduce the scarring and improve movement as much as possible.<\/p>\n

Thanks to your generous support, we can make a difference to children like Caleb and support world-leading care at the RCH. Click here to donate today to the Good Friday Appeal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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