Is your hot water bottle putting you at risk of a nasty burn?
Plea to carry out quick safety check on your hot water bottle
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue are urging us to carry out safety checks on our hot water bottle.
With the cold spell upon us the emergency service is worried more of us could be putting ourselves at risk of a nasty scald by using ones that are too old.
Hot water bottles should be replaced every couple of years as the rubber and seals can degrade.
Some hospitals see one person a week with hot water bottle burns.
DWFRS have shared a tip on how to tell how old your hot water bottle is.
Each are marked with a circle and the year of when it was manufactured with the dots showing which month too.
One of our news team at Greatest Hits Radio Salisbury was suprised to realise they were using a hot water bottle which is 14 years old!!
Hot water bottle shouldn't be filled with boiling water either and it's important to make sure all the air is expelled too.