Nearly 40 per cent of children admitted to a Brisbane hospital for sunburn didn't have sunscreen applied with parents underestimating the risks of sun exposure.
abc.net.au/news/sunburn-hospital-children-burns-sun-cancer-melanoma/101775258Doctors and nurses at the Queensland Children's Hospital are alarmed at the number of children – especially infants – needing hospital treatment for severe and painful sunburn.
Nurse practitioner Kristen Storey said the burns unit had seen about 10 badly sunburnt children in the past month but it was the babies that stayed in her mind. "They have to come into the hospital and have the wounds cleaned and then dressings applied and sometimes they have to do that for a couple of visits — so it's a big strain on the families and the kids," Ms Storey said.
Director of Paediatric Surgery, Burns and Trauma at QCH, Professor Roy Kimble, said about a quarter of the children treated for severe sunburn were babies under the age of one."Forty per cent of all the kids we saw, the parents said they didn't apply sunscreen and there were a couple who admitted that the sunscreen they used was out of date," Professor Kimble said.Ms Storey said parents sometimes underestimated the impact of reflected sunlight.
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