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Randomised controlled trial of thermostatic mixer valves in reducing bath hot tap water temperature in families with young children in social housing

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Introduction Approximately 2000 emergency department attendances and 500 hospital admissions following bath water scalds to children occur in the UK each year.1 Admissions mostly occur in children aged under 5 years, often involving prolonged inpatient stays , transfer to a specialist hospital or burns unit.1 The cost of treating a severe scald has been estimated at £250<TS, thin space here>000.1 Longer- term effects include disability , disfigurement or psychological harm. What is already known on this topic ▶ Hot bath water scalds are an important public health problem ; their incidence has not declined over recent years. ▶ Thermostatic mixing valves (TMVs) have the potential to reduce scald risk but there have been no randomised controlled trials assessing their effectiveness and acceptability to families. What this study adds ▶ TMVs and educational leaflets are effective in reducing bath hot tap water temperature in the short and longer term and are acceptable to famil...

Fear to bath inspires globally-lauded gel invention

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by DIKELEDI NOKWANE JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – THE parched lands of Motetema in the northernmost province of Limpopo in South Africa is not a place you would imagine meeting one of the world’s most prominent young inventors , a teenage one for that matter. However, it is from these humble surrounding where Ludwich Marishane (27), the man behind the waterless bath solution the world has marvelled at, hails. Called DryBath, a lotion that could be applied to the body as a replacement for bathing the revolutionary gel, invented when Marishane was only 17, is gaining prominence at a time some communities in South Africa are grappling with water rationing. The water cuts are in the wake of the worst drought in decades. Cape Town, where the Bachelor of Business Science degree holder studied ,is among the worst affected regions with dam level a mere 26 percent full on average. Indirectly, the invention that has secured him global recognition and has been welcomed by government is also hail...