{"id":210189,"date":"2025-12-25T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210189\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:10:08","slug":"real-health-how-to-react-to-a-burn-with-plastic-surgeon-professor-odhran-shelley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210189\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Health: How to react to a burn with Plastic Surgeon Professor Odhran Shelley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f20304b5-2ecb-43b0-9ed8-7d8293f70fab.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">How should you react to a burn? What&#8217;s the best response? And what should parents be mindful of at Christmas?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Professor Odhran Shelley, Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive &amp; Burns Surgeon and Clinical Professor of Surgery at Trinity College Dublin, joins me on this week\u2019s episode of the Real Health podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u200aThe plastic surgeon gave a warning at the beginning of the interview. He said, \u201cFor those with young children if they&#8217;re toddling around in the house, they&#8217;re a particular risk. They do something called cruising. So, when they&#8217;re just starting to walk, they&#8217;re holding onto surfaces. They really are a little bit unsteady and unfortunately, if one of the things that they grasp is a pan of boiling water or a kettle, it can have devastating results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I asked the burns expert how to respond to a burn. Professor Odhran Shelley says that \u201cAim to dissipate the heat. Hopefully reduce the amount of injury by putting under cool water for 20 minutes and to do that within the first four hours of injury. So, if you see somebody and they&#8217;ve not done it yet, get them to do it. There is one caveat. You must make sure that the person doesn&#8217;t get too cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You can listen to the full episode here or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How should you react to a burn? What&#8217;s the best response? And what should parents be mindful of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-210189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}