Severe burns from viral TikTok challenge involving candied sugar: A case series report

Q3 Medicine
Kristen Storey , Nicola Burns , Rachel Kerr , Maleea Holbert , Roy Kimble , Bronwyn Griffin
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Abstract

Burn injuries rank among the top five most common non-fatal injuries within the paediatric population. Scald injuries continue to be the leading cause of burn in the children, closely followed by contact burns, particularly in the six to 16 age group. Recently, there have been increasing reports of children sustaining scald and contact burns, after attempting to replicate videos viewed on social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube.
A recent trend of heating sugar and water in a plastic container within the microwave to make candied fruit is resulting in children and adolescents presenting with deep burns. The plastic container becomes so hot that it melts causing the hot sugar water and plastic to drip onto the child. There has been an increase in presentations to all burn centres throughout Australia resulting from this mechanism.

Method

A retrospective chart review was undertaken of six children presenting with toffee burns that attended the Pegg Leditschke Children’s Burns Centre at the Queensland Children’s Hospital over a period of four weeks.

Result

Six children presented with similar burns and were treated within the specialist burns centre. The lower limb was affected in four cases while two cases sustained burns on the hand. Skin grafts were required in two cases and four children continue to require long term scar management.

Conclusion

Social media plays an important role in our children’s lives however mimicking videos can result in increased risk of serious physical and psychological harm occurring. How to make candied sugar has gone viral causing numerous burns throughout Australia. While we do not want to restrict children from watching and participating with these videos, we require parents and moderators of these videos to ensure these videos are performed in a safe environment to decrease risks of injury occurring.
涉及糖的病毒性TikTok挑战导致严重烧伤:病例系列报告
烧伤是儿科人群中最常见的五种非致命伤害之一。烫伤仍然是儿童烧伤的主要原因,其次是接触性烧伤,特别是在6至16岁年龄组。最近,有越来越多的报道称,儿童在试图复制在TikTok和YouTube等社交媒体平台上观看的视频后,被烫伤和接触烧伤。最近一种趋势是,在微波炉中加热塑料容器中的糖和水来制作糖果水果,这导致儿童和青少年出现深度烧伤。塑料容器变得非常热,以至于融化,导致热糖水和塑料滴到孩子身上。由于这种机制,澳大利亚所有烧伤中心的报告有所增加。方法对6名因太妃糖烧伤而在昆士兰州儿童医院Pegg Leditschke儿童烧伤中心就诊的儿童进行了为期四周的回顾性分析。结果6例患儿均出现类似烧伤,均在专科烧伤中心治疗。4例下肢受累,2例手部烧伤。2例需要植皮,4例儿童继续需要长期疤痕处理。结论社交媒体在孩子的生活中扮演着重要的角色,然而模仿视频会增加孩子发生严重身体和心理伤害的风险。如何制作糖糖在澳大利亚疯传,导致许多人烧伤。虽然我们不想限制儿童观看和参与这些视频,但我们要求这些视频的家长和版主确保这些视频在安全的环境中播放,以减少受伤发生的风险。
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