Texas Tech Health Check

Keeping Kids Safe: A Guide to Burn Prevention

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Parental vigilance is the best way to keep children safe from burns, a common injury for kids. Possible burns are not limited to injuries from fireplaces, camp fires or fireworks. Risks include chemicals, electric cords, hot foods and hot water from the tap. Allan Pang, M.D., is a Texas Tech Physicians surgeon who specializes in burn, wound, trauma and critical care, and has been on this podcast before with great advice. He answers our questions about what we can do to prevent children from getting burns and what to do in case a child sustains a burn.