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News items on 'Burns And Scalds'
New skin 'may help burns victims'
(BBC 20/11/2009)
French researchers say they have found a way of using human embryonic stem cells to create new skin which could help serious burns victims. They say the stem cells grew into fully formed human skin 12 weeks after being grafted on to mice. The researchers, writing in the Lancet journal, say the skin could solve the problems of rejection that burns patients currently face. One stem cell expert said they had made an important advance.
Killer sunbeds claim one life every three days, warn doctors
(The Scotsman 20/06/2009)
AT LEAST 100 people are killed by sunbeds each year in the UK, and many hundreds more suffer cancer or disfiguring injuries, a hard-hitting report revealed yesterday. Experts led by a Glasgow-based doctor called for all commercial sunbed operators to be properly regulated, licensed and inspected. The report - from the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (Comare) - follows two high-profile cases of children who were seriously injured by coin-operated sunbeds.
The Saviour: The British plastic surgeon helping acid victims
(The Independent 17/05/2009)
It is about as far away from the nips and tucks of TV makeover shows and celebrity magazines as you can imagine, but then Dr Ronald Hiles has never had any interest in helping pampered princesses take inches off their thighs or years off their faces.
Girl, 10, burned at tanning salon
(BBC 01/05/2009)
A 10-year-old girl has suffered burns over 70% of her body after spending 16 minutes on an unsupervised sun bed. Kelly Thompson had to be treated overnight at a burns unit in Swansea and her mother wants an investigation. "The doctors told me if she had stayed on the bed two minutes longer, she may have needed skin grafts," her mother Sharon Hannaford, of Port Talbot, said.
Teenager whose face was burnt off in aerosol explosion regains his skin... but loses all his freckles
(Daily Mail 23/02/2009)
A schoolboy who was turned into a 'human fireball' when an aerosol can exploded in his face during a camping trip has made a miraculous recovery. Aiden Kelly suffered horrific burns when the pressurised can exploded in his face as he leaned over a campfire. The 15 year old's hair and face were set alight leaving him covered in scabs which doctors feared would never heal.
Toddler with severe burns sent home from hospital with bandages and Calpol
(Telegraph 25/11/2008)
A toddler who suffered horrific burns was sent home from hospital with bandages and advised to take Calpol. Her mother is considering taking legal action against the hospital after the child was diagnosed as needing emergency skin grafts when she took her back to hospital again the next day. Casey White was badly scalded on her face, shoulder and abdomen.
Kitchen honey better at healing burns than standard NHS treatments, say scientists
(Daily Mail 08/10/2008)
Honey has been found to be better at aiding burn recovery than standard treatments used by the NHS, a study claims. Scientists pooled data from 19 trials involving more than 2,500 patients with a range of wounds. They found that honey was better at reducing the time it takes to recover from mild to moderate burns than some widely used gauze and film dressings.
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