Most often, burning hot water occurs in the kitchen. It can be burning, embarrassed by pouring tea or merging water from a pan with a cooked potatoes; If you are going to wash your hands, and from the crane suddenly flies too hot water. Yes, there is never any situations when you need to urgently take something to remove the pain from the burn and avoid other unpleasant consequences!
But before let's figure out what kinds of burns are and what to do in each particular case. All burns of hot water are divided into three degrees:
1st degree
There is a defeat only an external, surface layer of epidermis. The skin is blushing in this place, swell, but the pain is completely tolerant. After about a week, the damaged area of the skin is typing, and after 2 weeks it already looks completely normal.
2nd degree
Such a burn is considered more serious, since there is damage not only to the surface, but also the skin is subject to layer. The pain is very strong, the affected place swells, the bubble is formed on it, which after some time it bursts in itself either due to contact with foreign objects, and the liquid is often distinguished.
Typically, the skin is restored by about 3 weeks, but on the affected place there remains a scar, differing in color from the surrounding skin: it can be lighter or darker.
3rd degree
All layers of skin are damaged so much that immediate medical care is required, including for removing unbearable pain.
Boilingcoma burn
There are many patients who have gained burns with boiling water, and, unfortunately, the children are made to the burn branches of hospitals. A small child in the kitchen is always a factor of danger, above all for himself, and parents, grandparents need to be literally not to lower the eyes from him so that the baby does not overturn the saucepan with a boiling water or cooking soup.
When splashing, boiling water appears in the skin, it arises a strong pain, but it will pass faster, if you immediately substitute the affected space under the stream of cold water or omitted into the container with cold water. It is usually enough 5 minutes.
With a more serious burn, boiling water (2nd degree) will require at least 15 minutes of exposure to cold water. Or you can applied to the affected area of the skin with a towel moistened with cold water, or ice, after having wrapped it into a plastic bag (directly ice cannot be applied to the skin). If the ice is not, then there is always something frozen in the freezer, which can also be attached to the skin, but again wrapped in a clean plastic bag.
how Treat skin burns
First of all, it is necessary to correctly assess the degree of skin lesion, but, of course, after you facilitate pain. If it does not pass in a few minutes, and the bubble is strong and swell on the skin, then it is better to seek medical help.
If the burn is not so strong, then you can take a clean bandage, turn it into several layers, wet in cold water and attach to the burn place. As needed, the bandage can be mixed several times with water; Hold it is half an hour-hour. It will protect the affected skin against contact with foreign objects and will remove pain.
In the arsenal of the home aid kit it is useful to have a means for rapid help from burns. One of the most reliable such means is Aloe Vera's gel, which lubricates an exhaled place. If you wish, it can be covered with a sterile bandage, but the wound will heal faster if "breathe".
First Aid with Serious Burns
Serious burn with a large area of lesion (if, for example, tipping over a saucepan with hot water) causes strong pain. In such cases, people are often lost and do not know what to do. First of all, you need to call an ambulance. But what is in no case It is impossible do:
- Trying to remove clothes, which often, as it should be glued to the skin. It must be moistened with cold water, and the physicians then remove the clothes, without causing the skin of harm.
- In no case, it is impossible to try to remove bubbles that appeared as a result of the burn - the infection can be penetrated through the affected skin, and the scar will remain on the spot. It is best to consult with your doctor. Perhaps he will recommend a bandage with therapeutic ointment. But even if you have to impose such a dressing, the skin will need to periodically make a breath.
- Bubble can never cut or try to delete to avoid infection. It can be just pierced, then the burn place will heal faster. Be sure to disinfect the bubble and needle before this, and then make a puncture side (it is impossible to pour in the center). Then the liquid from the bubble will be released, and this place can be lubricated by the disinfecting ointment.
So, summarize. With a very strong burn:
- Hold the affected area in cold water to relieve pain.
- Lubricate it with aloe vera gel or petroleum and cover with a sterile bandage. Such a dressing need to donate the day, but it should not be lorded too tight.
- If the pain is still felt, you can take some analgesic (ibuprofen, etc.).
- At night and in the morning, the bandage should be changed, use only a sterile bandage.
- So that the bandage was easier to remove and not injure the skin, it should be pre-mixed with water.
- After a week, the burn place needs to be cleaned. To remove dead skin, the bandage moisten in saline or other isotonic solution; The procedure is careful, without scratching the skin.
And finally, the people's way tested by our grandmothers. A man's urine has a healing and regenerating effect on the skin affected. Collect it in a clean jar, wet your clean bandage or a gauze bandage in it and overlap on an exhausted place. The bandage must remain wet all the time, that is, it must be cleaned periodically. Even if the burn was strong, thanks to the urine on the skin there will be no scars.
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