Doctors issue warning after teen is burnt by phone in the bath

The patient experienced low-voltage burns after using the charging smartphone while bathing
Bath and phone
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A Dutch teenager received electrical burns while using a smartphone in the bath, in a case that has doctors calling for increased patient education to avoid similar cases.

The 13-year-old girl experienced low-voltage burns to the hand holding the phone and to her abdomen, surgeons from the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam and Red Cross Hospital in Beverwijk wrote.