And it burns down into their tissue of their hand. They haven't been educated and taught where to hold the sparklers. A very simple type of injury we see from a sparkler is the fact that they held this sparkler, not on the handle part, that they actually held it where the chemical is that's burning. Interviewer: When a child comes in with the sparkler injury, what kinds of injuries do you see and how does that affect the rest of their life?īrad: Sure.
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But now in my profession, I'm a burn professional and I understand the dangers and the risk and I think they really get associated with some very life-changing types of injuries that people just don't take the time to recognize when it comes to sparkler injuries. And if you ask me if I held this sparkler when I was a kid, absolutely. But a sparkler is the same thing essentially.īrad: Yeah, and I think that's the extreme of people thinking about, "Oh, this is just fireworks fun," and it is fireworks fun. Interviewer: No, of course, you wouldn't. Interviewer: Like one of those ones you do a copper pipe repair on, would you light that thing up and let them run around waving it in the air?īrad: And the answer is no. Would you give your two or three or four or five-year-old a blow torch and have them run around with the blow torch? And probably the most common thing people don't know is that a sparkler burns close to 2,000 degrees. And what kind of injuries do you see in the Burn Center? Would that surprise people?īrad: The types of injuries we see and the type of problems we see, number one, in small children, is related to sparklers.
So I think they take it a little bit more to the extreme sometimes. The celebrations around both of those, I think people are celebrating the fact that they live in Utah and that they're a part of the history of Utah being in the United States. Why do you think the 24th?īrad: I just think here in Utah, the population of people that we have, they celebrate the 24th a lot more readily than they do the 4th of July. And Brad was telling me that the 24th of July is your worst day of the year for fireworks burns. Interviewer: Brad Wiggins is a nurse manager at University of Utah Healthcare Brun Center. This is The Scope, University of Utah Health Sciences Radio. Interviewer: Did you know that fireworks injuries are actually worse on the 24th of July here in Utah than the 4th of July? We'll explore why and give you some safety tips coming up next on The Scope.Īnnouncer: We're your daily dose of science, conversation, medicine.
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