PSA - careful with pizza!

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll tack on an additional psa. See a dermatologist ASAP for a burn on the face. ER docs are not the most knowledgeable about potential for scarring.

Op here. Thanks for this idea.

I thought ER was overkill and waste of money (actually once my baby was bouncing in her chair and happily eating dinner I wasn’t even going to call ped) but once it started blistering I said to the woman at the next table (the one who’d given me the pediatric neosporin) “Mom to Mom do you think I should call her doctor?” She looked and saw it was blistering and said something like “yes! That looks serious!” So I packed up the food and my kids and walked home (to get car and because DH wasn’t picking up the phone) and called my ped on the walk home. The advice nurse said ER. I asked about urgent care and she said something like “for burns, especially on the face, I strongly urge you to go to the ER. Which one will you be using so I can note it in her chart?” So, by the time we walked home I’d been told I should really go to the ER.

The irony is the baby has a cold and has had a hard time sleeping but last night she slept through the night without complaint.

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OP that sounds scary and I'm very glad your baby is ok.

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Oy this happened to my brother at age 5 or 6 at Rehoboth Beach. Louie's pizza, straight out of the oven, VERY hot and the cheese landed in his lap. Mom ran around town trying to find Tylenol. Poor guy. glad your little one is OK and thanks for the reminder.

[Anonymous]

Good psa. Pizza melted cheese has a high specific heat and dos not cool fast. I always keep it as far away as I can from toddler dd. Or she burns her mouth. Funny that my dh always forgets and inevitable burns his own mouth.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll tack on an additional psa. See a dermatologist ASAP for a burn on the face. ER docs are not the most knowledgeable about potential for scarring.

Op here. Thanks for this idea.

I thought ER was overkill and waste of money (actually once my baby was bouncing in her chair and happily eating dinner I wasn’t even going to call ped) but once it started blistering I said to the woman at the next table (the one who’d given me the pediatric neosporin) “Mom to Mom do you think I should call her doctor?” She looked and saw it was blistering and said something like “yes! That looks serious!” So I packed up the food and my kids and walked home (to get car and because DH wasn’t picking up the phone) and called my ped on the walk home. The advice nurse said ER. I asked about urgent care and she said something like “for burns, especially on the face, I strongly urge you to go to the ER. Which one will you be using so I can note it in her chart?” So, by the time we walked home I’d been told I should really go to the ER.

The irony is the baby has a cold and has had a hard time sleeping but last night she slept through the night without complaint.

Are you sure the blisters were from pizza and not an allergic reaction to neosporin (this is what happened to me as a kid)?

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Thanks for the PSA. A few months ago I was rushing around and grabbed the wrong bowl of oatmeal (the one not mixed with frozen fruit to cool it down) and gave it to one of my two year old twins. It was boiling hot, and she took a huge bite. I thought we were headed to the ER for sure.. She recovered after a few minutes, but I'm still feeling terribly guilty months later.

[Anonymous]

Op here. Interesting pp. I don’t know for sure...I think (in the timeline I remember) she’d already started blistering before the Neosporin, but worth keeping in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glad to hear your DD is fine. It must have been pretty scary. Don’t be too hard on yourself it could happen to anyone.

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Hugs from one mom to the other !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry that happened to your kid. Bizarre PSA - huge parenting fail by not supervising your kid.

Shut up !!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Interesting pp. I don’t know for sure...I think (in the timeline I remember) she’d already started blistering before the Neosporin, but worth keeping in mind.

Heat would blister. That’s science.

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I thought neosporin shouldn't be applied on fresh burns, that it effectively creates a barrier and traps in the heat making the burn worse? (Or some reason like that).

I'm glad your daughter is okay and thanks for mentioning, I wouldn't have thought the cheese could cause blisters.

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Op here. I told the advice nurse and the ER doc what I’d done. They both said don’t apply ice but that it sounds like i did “all the right things” so I don’t know - they didn’t say anything retroactively re: Neosporin, but it’s possible they didn’t want me to feel worse.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the PSA, and I'm glad your baby is ok. You did everything right and sometimes shit just happens.

I've read somewhere that raw potato helps with burns. When I got burned by the stove I applied a slice of potato and it helped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually am always aware of stuff like this and always tell waiters to put the kids plates where no one can reach them but me. I amazes me that a waiter would even think to put a very hot plate in front of a young child (oldest is 4.5).

Its not the waiter's job to supervise anyone's kids, but their own.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually am always aware of stuff like this and always tell waiters to put the kids plates where no one can reach them but me. I amazes me that a waiter would even think to put a very hot plate in front of a young child (oldest is 4.5).

The waiter probably put it in the first open spot he saw. You are blaming him when you didn't supervise.

I am always amazed at how many posters there are here that are just plain jackasses. Sometimes I wonder if posters who make such comments even have kids to begin with. Things can happen in just a matter of seconds. While you're turning around to pick up your dropped napkin or calm your other child down or to sneeze. It's not like this lady went to go to the bathroom and left her child unattended.

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