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Parent/Pediatric Emergency Physician•VP Communications & Senior Medical Advisor, @pmpeds•MD, MEd & #Evidencebased tweetiatrician 22/17 she|her
Jun 30, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
Every year when the July 4 holiday weekend comes around, I go through my peds emergency med list of what I hope that maybe this year I won’t see, unlike in years past -

A short🧵- All the burns -
- on the bottoms of kids’ bare feet from stepping on discarded still hot BBQ charcoal briquets
- on hands and in eyes from wayward sparks from home fireworks & sparklers
- painfully blistered sunburns from forgetting to reapply sunscreen