According to the charity Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), more children are being admitted to hospital with burns after playing with their parents hair straighteners.

All makes of hair straighteners, including ghd, generate very high temperatures (upto 230c) to heat the ceramic plates enough to straighten your hair. That’s hot of course so touching the plates can give you a nasty burn. Incidentally, hot straighteners can also damage furniture – that’s why you should always use a protective heat mat.

According to stats from the CAPT, the number of children getting burned by straighteners has risen by 50% in the last 10 years. Alder Hey childrens hospital in Liverpool treats at least 40 children for these types of burns.

So don’t carelessly leave your straighteners out when you’ve finished with them – wrap them in a protective heat case or wrap. Remind your teenage daughters not to leave them within reach of younger sisters …friends of ours had a lucky escape when a 7 year old found her older sisters ghds left on a dressing table.

Play safe and put them out of reach too even when cold.