Burns

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I feel crappy. Today we went to a friends wedding. While sitting in the church my daughter (12 months) stood up in the pews and then went down on all fours. When I picked her up she screamed and I saw that she had burnt her hand. We went to A & E and she's all bandaged up now. She screamed and screamed it must have been very painful.

What I want to know is will it scar (it's on the palm of her hand at the base of her fingers - she must have grabbed a hot pipe?

did you stick it straight into cold water?
if you did, then it shouldbe ok.
if you didnt, then it probly will

where was this hot pipe? in a pew? why?

when ds2 was 13 monthsish, he spilled a just mad mug of boiling coffee all down his front. i was on the other side of the room, but fortunatly saw it. grabbed him, and ran to the shower, yelling at mom to get cold water from the fridge, (this was in the middle of big family gathering, id just made tea/coffee for everyone) they all thought i was acting like a loony until they realised what had happened. anyways, i stuck him under the cold shower. he was screaming and screaming, but i kept him there and then we chucked cold water fromt he fridge at his chest, because in saudi arabia in the middle of summer the cold water tap gives out decidely hot water!
but
he didnt have any scars whatsover.
a year or so later he got burned on his arm witha small hot water spill, i stuck his hand under the cold tap, but he was screaming and dh was getting stressed by his screaming and what i was doing to him. his, childless, doctor friends were there, and they said, just sit with him with a wet towel on his arm, and calm him down.
hhe still has the scar.

hope your dd gets better soon

The more I think about it now I've calmed down the more unacceptable I think it is.

Why was there a hot water pipe hot enough to burn a baby's hand under a pew in church. Don't they think about health and safety?

I suppose if it was hot enough to burn her hand in a few seconds then it could have also burn't someones leg who was sitting there.

I have phoned the church and explained that I am not complaining but want them to be aware of the accident so it doesn't happen again. Waiting for someone to phone me back.

I hope she will be ok, It was so horrible seeing her in so much pain.

My daughter(9) burnt her hand at 2 on an iron. She had a skin graft on the top of her hand , which is a scar, but it really doesn't bother her.

i would actuall y complain. that was one of the first thngs that i thought of when you spoke about burning hher hand in a church. the complaint wont do your dd any good, btu it will mean that no other babies will get burnt.
i went off on a tangent coz im very very annoyed at my dcousing whose son wa s burned recently, and rather than treating him with cold water, she rushed him off to the the hospital. his burn is bleeding now. had she dealt with it the way i did,, he'd be fine. very annoyed at her.