Instant noodles account for almost a third of childhood burn injuries, according to a study published by researchers at the University of Chicago.
"Anecdotally, it felt like every other child we were consulted on for a burn was injured by instant noodles, so we wanted to dive into the data to see what the trend really was," said senior author Sebastian Vrouwe, assistant professor of surgery at University of Chicago Medicine, in a news release. "Our hope is to develop the groundwork for future burn prevention programming, as essentially all childhood burns are in some way preventable.
The study also found certain children were more likely to experience burns from instant noodles than others. On average, the patients with instant noodle burns were more likely to be Black and to be from ZIP codes with a lower average childhood opportunity index score. In the news release, Vrouwe explained adult supervision is an essential preventive measure for reducing burns from instant noodles and other foods.
Quinlan, who did not contribute to the study, noted it only included patients admitted to the University of Chicago's Burn Center, which primarily serves a low-income community on the south side of Chicago. So while the findings might not be generalizable to the rest of the country, they do "tell a story quite common in the inner city areas across the country," he said.
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