A spike in the number of teenagers presenting to hospitals with burns after following DIY cooking recipes on social media has triggered warnings to parents.
At least 15 children attended burns centres, with about a third receiving skin grafts, after making toffee or similar DIY food recipes in Australia and New Zealand in the last month.When 12-year-old Violet Higgins was making a candied fruit recipe she learned from TikTok, she didn’t expect to end up in hospital.
After the crystallised syrup was peeled off by Violet’s mother, Rebecca, she was taken to hospital where she received treatment for burns to her toes. “I didn’t think something like that could happen because no one showed that something could go wrong,” she said. Dr Monique Bertinetti, a paediatric and burns surgeon at the Royal Children’s Hospital, said there was a spike in the trend and health authorities were concerned.“We are certainly seeing a spike in toffee scald burns, especially in young adolescent teens who are experimenting off the trends from social media,” said Bertinetti.
“The temperatures that the toffee gets to is much higher than a hot liquid. A hot liquid rolls off the body but whereas the toffee is sticky and so parents have had to pull the burning off the kids, so it’s continued to burn,” she said. “Ask kids to think about what the goal of these videos are. They just want clicks; they are not there to help you cook in a safe way, and it’s the same way for adult content,” Rosewarne said.
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