by Budianto Dermawan Ng

Created on: April 27, 2008

The Heat and The Flame.

We cannot separated these two things from home and mostly are correlated with kitchen as the dominant source. Get burnt can be happened to any subject who's always dealing with the stuff, but it could be also happened to the most innocent person at home, our small kids.

We need to detect which factors at home that might give the possible chance of gets burnt.

1. Hot water.
This is the most dangerous stuff for kids who're not wrapped in their baby's seat. We can't imagine if they reach and grab down that hot kettle down on themselves. I hope not. Always learn to put your hot kettle far away from their reach, because one mistake will make you regret without tears forever if the small one grabs the mouth of the kettle. The same with the soup in the pan and the bowl on the table. You may limit your kid into his/her for not reaching those possible dangerous area, like putting in baby's cage or wrap on the baby's seat.

2. Matches or burning stuff.
In some mid-low family who's still using matches or burning mosquito repellent must be very cautious in using those stuff. Keep your matches in a place where's out of kid's reach and use an electricity mosquito repellent is safer. The same with candles, it's better use the emergency lamp rather than candles.

3. Hot cooking oil.
It's advisable to put the used-cooking oil in a safe place after used. Pour in the safe stainless-steel's bowl directly after used and warm the cooking pan. You don't want your kid running around and accidentally hit the pan's handle and gets burnt by the hot oil. Use the traditional treatment of using toothpaste cream to redeem the spot, bring to hospital immediately to avoid further tendon's damage.

4. Gas stove.
Sometimes kids are silly and curious about gas stove's knob. You may plug-off the gas cap's tank if you have this type kids even we'd warned them. Mostly nowadays gas tank was locked into a locker type, then we need to lock them when we are not using them to prevent them playing with the knob or gas which is very dangerous for them.

5. Electricity cord, cable, plugs.
Reminds those kids for not touching those things. If you feel unsafe about them, you may evaluate this with your partner to arrange those slots in a hidden place. This is very dangerous if those kids are not guided and playing with the plugs.

6. Bike's muffler and car's engine.
Nowadays car is safer. Really? Kids are small, they can crawl into beneath of car. Imagine if their hand touch the inner part of the muffler after you just came home from office. Bike's hot muffler is also dangerous for kids. Make sure them to stay away from those two vehicles.

Children are the most lame victims (and subjects too) when they are dealing with hot stuff. It's advisable parents must always stay alert on any possible means that can cause burning. Because fire will never compromise and you can lose everything because of it.

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