Boys and girls recover differently from painful burns

Severe burns in children involve painful treatments to help remove burned tissue from their body. Staying in a burn unit is the best for most of this care, but the goal is to move them out of that intensive setting as quickly as possible.

A new study published in the Annals of Surgery, has found that girls recover from burns quicker than do boys. The study included 189 children, 75 were girls, who had burns over at least 40% of their body. It turned out that boys stayed in the burn unit for considerably longer than girls, at an average of 35 days compared with 26 days.

These types of studies and findings are important because if researchers can find out why girls respond better, that can help them work on treatments that can help both, the boys and the girls.

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