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Anti-Scalding Devices Can Be an Added Benefit to Your Home

Anti-Scalding Devices Can Be an Added Benefit to Your Home

June 10, 2014

In healthy adults with no skin complications, third-degree burns can occur after about five minutes in a shower of 120-degree Fahrenheit water. The elderly, young children and the infirm burn much more readily at the same temperature. In fact, because these individuals and children have thinner, more delicate skin, scalding can occur in half the time …