Paraffin-based ointments and fire hazard: understanding the problem, navigating the media and currently available downloadable patient information

Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). News headlines have adorned the national press in recent days (March 2017) in the UK, the ‘headline’ act being the story ‘A BBC investigation has discovered that at least 37 deaths have been linked to the creams since 2010’:1,2