STEAM inhalations may help victims of croup to breathe, but can severely scald young children, doctors at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, warn in the British Medical Journal. The face of one child, treated at home on doctor's advice, was badly injured: her head had been covered in a towel, and her face held over a bowl of steaming water.
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