Citation

Seidel JS. Ann. Emerg. Med. 1994; 23(6): 1388-1389.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Torrance.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8198319

Abstract

The cases are presented of three patients who sustained scald burns after placing their braided hair in boiling water to set the braids. Caretakers and cosmetologists should be warned of the potential danger from scald burns when setting hair braids. Emergency physicians should be aware of this mechanism of injury for scald burns to the scalp, face, back, and neck regions.