How to prevent burns in your home 13 Articles

by Katelyn Vercoe

Burns are extremely painful, may scar permanently and occur with alarming frequency in the home environment. We need to be particularly aware of potential dangers in the home and take measures to prevent accidental burns. ...read more

by Zoe Trudeaux

Accidents can happen in the blink of an eye. Burns and fires are the leading cause of accidental death in the home for children 14 and under and the third leading cause of accidental death for adults. Statistics show that ...read more

by Christobel Rajesh

Approximately 2.5 million people experience burn injuries in the United states each year. Of this group, 200,000 require outpatient treatment and 100,000 are hospitalized. About 12,000 people die from burns and related inh...read more

by Ray Fauteux

Often, it is the simplest mistake in the home that leads to tragedy caused by fire. It's unfortunate but true that pretty well every one of these tragedies could easily have been avoided. In order to prevent burns in th...read more

by R.L Hanlon

It's not until you're a parent do you realize things we take for granted such as running hot water and how we heat our homes, can have such dire consequences when children are around. A scold from hot water that may emit ...read more

by EMoore

Be always alert for accident prevention in your home, and a major source of disasters waiting to happen concern fire safety. As a preventative know the habits of you and your family and monitor activities around stoves, el...read more

by Erin Knight

It's hard to visit a hospital emergency room, without seeing at least one burn victim. They are painful, can lead to serious infection and leave a scar, as a life long reminder. The sad thing is, the majority of burns are ...read more

by Renie Doshier

My first learning curve about burns happened at the age of four. My mother was ironing. For whatever reason she had to leave the room but told me specifically "HOTdon't touch the iron." I, of course being the curious child...read more

by Budianto Dermawan Ng

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 ...read more

by Just Me Here

In order to prevent burns in your home, you must realize just how many way there are potential ways one can be burned. Your first reaction to burns in your home is probably by fire, but there are many more ways one can be ...read more

by Canice Obi

Fires and burns often happen unexpectedly, but taking a closer look you see that you might have been able to prevent it from happening had you been a little careful. Fire and burn incident tends to be frustrating and annoy...read more

by Linda Smith

Burns within the home are one of the greatest dangers mothers fear for their children, with a recognition of the reality it's not something that happens to other people, it can happen to your child! Parents need to apply d...read more

by Blue Lightning

Imagine if you had a child that was four years old and didn't know about the consequences of flammable things. Now, imagine if that child accidentally spilled hot grease all over himself. This is one of the many cases ...read more