1, 4 However, in a survey of general practitioners in 2016 showed that 80% of general practitioners have recommended steam inhalation as a home remedy to their patients. Studies have shown that there is no additional symptomatic relief from the use of steam inhalation therapy to treat the common cold. Social media and home-made tutorials from unverified sources have a role in misleading parents into practising this dangerous habit. The common misconception is that steam inhalation is beneficial in preventing and treating respiratory tract symptoms. Two thirds of centres reported an association with Asian ethnicity (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, or Other). This correlated with regions of England with higher prevalence of COVID-19 (London and South East West Midlands North West). With an 86% response rate, we found that 50% of centres have had an increase in scalds relating to steam inhalation. We surveyed Burns Services across England. Over the past month alone, we have admitted six children with burn injuries due to this mechanism, with the youngest child aged 2 weeks, and the most severe case involving 8% of the child's total body surface area, requiring excision and skin grafting. On average, our unit admits two patients per year with scalds related to steam inhalation. Children have occasionally been left unsupervised. The mechanism is most frequently accidental spillage of boiling water from a bowl or from a kettle. 3 Since lockdown measures were implemented last month, our Burns Centre at Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK, received a 30-fold increase in the number of scalds directly resulting from steam inhalation. Every day, more than 100 children present to the emergency department with burn injuries in the UK. Scald injuries are the commonest cause of burns in children. The evidence base of the practice is weak, with unproven theories that the steam loosens mucus, opens nasal passages, and reduces mucosal inflammation, or that the heat inhibits replication of viruses. On the 20th this was beaten once more - 21.1 million of us were all online at the same time - and then that record was topped once again on 21st March 2020.Steam inhalation is traditionally used as a home remedy for common colds and upper respiratory tract infections. When Europe went into lockdown in March, Steam noted another new record when 20.3m of us were online on 15th March. On 2nd February a new high of 18.8m was set when China went into lockdown around Chinese New Year, and then again just a week later, when 19.1m were online when CNY was extended. The record of 18.5 million concurrent players - which was originally set at the height of PUBG's popularity in January 2018 - has been broken several times since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Though only speculation, it's thought a combination of the cold weather, pandemic lockdowns, and the release of Cyberpunk 2077 have all had an impact on the figures. Now, according to SteamDB (thanks, PC Gamer), Valve's PC platform has hit another record high, with 24,776,635 concurrent users on the service yesterday.Īt the time of writing, that figure has dropped to 22.6m, although that's still higher than the most recent record of 22 million. Before today, the highest concurrent player count seen on Steam was 22 million users. Steam saw an unprecedented number of players concurrently online back when the pandemic first surged, resulting in millions of people going into lockdown. For the sixth time this year, Steam has broken its own record for the highest number of concurrent players ever recorded on Steam.
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