Burns Inside the House: the Main Dangers and How to Prevent

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Almost 80% of the cases of burns occur inside the house and the biggest victims are children. According to the Brazilian pediatric society, among the nearly 14,000 hospitalizations for burns in the country, from 2024 to 2025, more than half were children under 5 years of age. The data scares and the specialists guarantee that the numbers can be even higher if we consider the cases that did not need or did not go through hospitalization. To make …