Short Communication Open Access
Volume 4 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/allergy.4.032
Increased incidence of severe burns in pediatric patients during the COVID -19 pandemic
Kassandra Aglae Salazar Vázquez1, Yanyn Ameyaly Cabrera Antonio1,*, Arturo Gerardo Garza Alatorre1, Verónica Rodríguez Martínez1
- 1Departamento de Pediatría. Departamento de Medicina Crítica Pediátrica. Hospital Universitario “Dr. José Eleuterio González”, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Nuevo León, México
Corresponding Author
Yanyn Ameyaly Cabrera Antonio, ayanyn@gmail.com
Received Date: January 10, 2023
Accepted Date: February 14, 2023
Salazar-Vázquez KA, Cabrera-Antonio YA, Garza-Alatorre AG, Martinez-Rodriguez V. Increased incidence of severe burns in pediatric patients during the COVID -19 pandemic. J Allergy Infect Dis. 2023;4(1):1-3.
Copyright: © 2023 Salazar-Vázquez KA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase in the incidence of burns in the pediatric population was observed worldwide, in our institution an increase was observed in the same way in the year 2020 and after this in the year 2021, when pandemic restrictions were continued. All burns occurred in the home, and the majority were from scalds. The objective of this article is to raise the call for attention to increase prevention measures so that these accidents are reduced and avoid their sequelae.
Keywords
COVID -19, Burns, Pediatrics, Prevention, Children, Pandemic
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