Accidents - Combs or hairbrushes - 0-5 years old - Year 2009

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 613
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products.

Accidents - Body Parts:

Ear:	209	Mouth:	162
Head:	90	Elbow:	81
Face:	46	Internal:	12
Eyeball:	6	All Of Body:	6

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/16/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
LAC TO CHEEK WHEN STRUCK BY A PLASTICK COMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2009	Age: 12 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
12 MONTH F MAY HAVE SWALLOWED A PLASTIC COMB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/12/2009	Age: 10 months	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT HAD HAIR BRUSH IN MOUTH, SISTER WAS PICKING HER UP AND SHE ACCID DRO PPED HER. FELL ABOUT 1 FT. HAIR BRUSH CAUSED LAC IN MOUTH. DX MOUTH LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/11/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
5YOM MOM BRUSHING HAIR WITH HAIR BRUSH AND CAUGHT EAR ABRASION EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/18/2009	Age: 18 months	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Sofas, couches, davenports, divans or studio couches
MOUTH LAC-18 MOM-RAN INTO A COUCH-HAD COMB IN MOUTH-CUT MOUTH-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/12/2009	Age: 9 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT DX 2ND DEGREE BURN TO FOREHEAD AND CHEEK - S/P BIBEMS,HX OF PATIENT GRABBING HOT COMB AND GOT BURNED TO RT SIDE OF FACE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/02/2009	Age: 17 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
OLDER BROTHER MAY HAVE PUT COMB IN EAR LAST NIGHT PERFORATED TYMPANIC MEMBRANE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/29/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT POKED A RAT TAIL COMB N EAR, DX; EAR CANAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/28/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT STUCK END OF COMB IN HER EAR, DX: ABRASION TO INNER EAR CANAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/21/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PATIENT SCREAMING WITH EAR PAIN AFTER STICKING A COMB IN EAR; EAR PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/01/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT HAD A COMB IN HER MOUTH AT HOME WHEN SHE TRIPPED AND FELL AND IT CUT THE TOP OF HER MOUTH. BLED BRIEFLY. HAS PAIN. DX MOUTH LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/30/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
ABRASION TO MOUTH WHEN FELL WITH A COMB IN MOUTH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/23/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT STUCK A PLASTIC HAIR PICK IN MOUTH, DX LAC TO LIP AND MOUTH
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/18/2009	Age: 21 months	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT TRIPPED WHILE CARRYING A COMB YEST AND FELL W/IT IN HER MOUTH, C/O M OUTH PAIN AND MASERATED TONSIL W/LG LAC; TONSIL LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 07/18/2009	Age: 22 months	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
HIT WITH HAIR BRUSH;DX LACERATED HEAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/16/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Dislocation
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PTS MOTHER WAS COMBING HAIR WHEN CHILD PULLED AWAY AND FELT A POP IN LE FT ELBOW DISLOCATED ELBOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/08/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of Body		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
MOM BRUSHING PATIENT'S HAIR WHEN SLUMPED OVER, PALE, MOM CAUGHT HER BEF ORE SHE FELL; SYNCOPAL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/26/2009	Age: 18 months	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT HAS LACERATION TO PALATE DUE TO PUTTING COMB IN MOUTH DX: MOUTH LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Elbow		Diagnosis: Dislocation
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
AUNT OR MOM BRUSHING PTS HAIR, PT PULLED AWAY AND AUNT OR MOM PULLED PT BACK BY ARM, NOW NOT USING ARM; NURSEMAIDS ELBOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/12/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Face		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT WAS ACCIDENTLY HIT WITH A METAL HAIR BRUSH THROWN BY HER BROTHER DX: FACIAL LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/01/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
TICK REMOVAL: TICK IN HER HEAD, MOTHER FOUND WHILE COMBING HER HAIR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/31/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PATIENT PLAYING WITH A COMB, TOOTH OF COMB BROKE OFF IN EAR; FB REMOVED
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/04/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Eyeball		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT HAD A COMB & MOM STATES PT MAY HAVE POKED EYE WITH IT, HAS BEEN RUBB ING EYE, NOW W/TEARING, DISCHARGE & REDNESS TO EYE; CORNEAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/03/2009	Age: 1 months	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Head		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT DX SCALP ABRASION - S/P DUE TO COMBING BY MATERNAL AUNT DURING BATHING TODAY.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/15/2009	Age: 4 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
SIS PUT SHARP PART POINT OF COMB (POINT FOR PARTING HAIR) IN L EAR, SAW DRIED BLOOD. DX: L EAR CANAL ABRASION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/22/2009	Age: 2 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
COMB WENT INTO BACK OF MOUTH - SHARP END OF COMB IN MOUTH. DX LACERATI ON
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 03/13/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT HAS A PIECE OF A COMB IN EAR. DX FB EAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/22/2009	Age: 12 months	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Internal		Diagnosis: Ingested Object
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
SWALLOWED TEETH FROM A COMB THAT HE HAD IN HIS MOUTH DX: FB INGESTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/18/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Combs or hairbrushes, Beds or bedframes
PLAYING WITH A COMB, IN BED, & CUT INSIDE OF HER MOUTH DX: INTRAORAL LACERATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/11/2009	Age: 5 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Foreign Body
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT GOT FB IN EAR (PIECE OF A COMB)
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/08/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Mouth		Diagnosis: Puncture
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT HAD COMB IN MOUTH, FELL HIT FACE ON GROUND. PUNCTURE WOUND TO ROOF OF MOUTH.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/31/2009	Age: 3 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Ear		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Combs or hairbrushes
PT.S SISTER STUCK END OF COMB IN EAR CANAL W/ BLOOD DX: R EAR CANAL TRAUMA/ BLEEDING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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