A more recent study by Jamnadas-Khoda et al. [7] examined the cooling properties of certain household beverages and
demonstrated similar cooling rates to our study. The authors concluded that hot beverages took 5–10 min to cool to 65 8C
and therefore had the potential to cause ‘‘full thickness burns’’. When referring to the initial research carried out by Moritz and Henriques [2] into the relationship between surface temperature and time of exposure in the causation of burns, we believe the paper by Jamnadas-Khoda et al. [7] and others [5,12] have incorrectly interpreted the original publication.
Moritz and Henriques constantly refer to ‘‘trans-epidermal necrosis’’ and to the destruction of the ‘‘epidermis’’ as an end
point for their experiments and not to a ‘‘full thickness burn’’ [2]. The reference, in these publications [5,7], to 2 s of exposure at 65 C causing a ‘‘full thickness burn’’ should in fact be to the causation of a ‘‘burn’’