Hot-water bottles can be wonderfully cosy, whether you’re tucked up in bed or settled on the sofa for the night, but they also carry risks of scalds and burns, especially for some people.
“Hot-water bottles are a quick, easy and cost effective way of staying warm in winter – but they can also cause serious injury,” Professor Adam Taylor, an anatomist at Lancaster University, wrote in The Conversation.
People with spina bifida and cerebral palsy may also have reduced sensitivity in their skin, according to NHS advice.
Hot-water bottles should also never be placed next to babies.
The main scalding risk comes from the obvious one, of the water leaking out from the bottle – either because the lid isn’t properly screwed on, or if the container bursts.
Use-by date
To help people know when they are past their “use-by date”, hot-water bottles should show the date when they were made, usually on their neck. It may be in the form of a wheel, with the last two digits of the year in the middle, and the month indicated in the surrounding circle.
Failing to use a cover, or heating up the skin for too long, can occasionally lead to marks on the skin developing, known as hot-water bottle rash, or “toasted skin syndrome”. If the overheating has gone on for a long time, the rash can even be permanent.
Bottles should be filled up to about two thirds full and then very gently squeezed to get rid of some of the air.
Some health bodies advise that people should not get into bed with a hot-water bottle, but that it could be used instead to warm up the bed, before getting in.
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