The NHS have issued a warning to people cooking pancakes this Shrove Tuesday, as its website sees high numbers of traffic relating to advice on burns and scalds.
According to the National Health Service, their burns and scalds page is viewed once every 16 seconds, with visits to the NHS website’s advice almost doubling on Pancake Day according to the latest figures.
The service also say that page views for burn injury assistance soar from an average of 3,200 to 5,300 daily when the annual celebrations come around - based on figures from the two previous years - a rise of 66%.
