More than 100 patients hospitalised with sunburn over past decade

Cases of full-thickness burns and people requiring admission to ICU are among the extreme cases, researchers find
Sunburn

Some Australians get such bad sunburn they require surgery or hospitalisation, researchers warn.

In the first study of its kind, researchers trawled the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand, finding 167 cases over the past decade who required treatment from specialist burns services.