Recommended Web Sites

Burns - This indepth look at burns, including chemical and electrical burns, is provided by MedicineNet.

Burns - The KidsHealth web site has created this information for parents.

Burns:First Aid - The Mayo Clinic offers these tips for proper care of burns. They also offer: First Aid for Chemical Burns and First Aid for Electrical Burns.

Burns from the Merck Manual - The Merck Manual Home Edition for Patients and Caregivers offers information about all types of burns: how to prevent them and treat them.

Burns from NOAH - New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) is committed to providing high quality, full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. It is a joint project of several New York City agencies.

Burns: From Treatment to Prevention - This article discusses the grading of burns and the preferred treatments for each level. There is a special section on children's burns.

Burns and Traumatic Injury - The National Institutes of Health has created this fact sheet.

Fire Safety for Older Adults and Their Caregivers - The U.S. Fire Administration offers this advice.

Keep Kids Healthy: Burn Safety - Tips for parents to help keep their children safe from burns.

MEDLINEPlus: Burns and Fire Safety - The National Library of Medicine produces these lists of links to quality resources about burns and fire safety issues.

National Fire Protection Association Fact Sheets - Excellent fact sheets from this organization, about fire safety issues in home, at work and at play.

Prevention and Treatment of Burns - The University of Missouri Extension has provided this information about preventing and treating common household burns such as those from cooking.

US Consumer Product Safety Commission - This site provides access to a variety of fire safety and other burn-related brochures provided by the CPSC.

What is a Burn? - This site offers a handy table outlining the types of burns, along with some good first aid advice. It is one section of the Home Fire and Burn Prevention Guide from the Illinois Fire Safety Alliance.