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All moderate to severe burns should be cared for properly to reduce the chance of infection or scarring. Burn victims should be taken to an emergency room, particularly for burns on the face, neck or genitals.
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Anonymous said
on 7/30/2006 Clean the wound by pouring peroxide over it. Boil a pot of water and add 1/4 cup of salt and let cool (this is the equivalent of saline solution). Soak sterile gauze in the solution and lay it on top of the burned area with the area elevated. Change these saline soaked dressings before they dry out. This is especially good to do at night. Apply neosporin to the burned area and gently lay a sterile 4x4 dressing over the burn and tape it in place. Keep an eye on the swelling and the redness that may develop around the burned area.
A doctor would debride the dead tissue in the burn to make it heal faster with less scaring and they might use an antibiotic cream called Silvadene which is white in color. If you think the burn is infected, call your doctor as cellulitis may have occurred and the burn patient needs antibiotics, sometimes by IV in the hospital.
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 Burns should be treated with cold water for more than 20 minutes. Any longer will counter the top of blood flow.
Anonymous said
on 8/21/2006 Use makeup remover to gently get the oil off the skin so the damaged skin can breathe. Put bags of frozen vegetables into large bowls of cool water to soak the skin in. Sit down, take pain meds, watch something dumb on TV and distract yourself so you do not faint from the pain. Do not worry about cleaning up the kitchen or the stains on your clothes, if this even occurred to you, schedule an appointment with a therapist as soon as the burn heals! Don't hesitate to ask a neighbor for help. Americans have a latent hero gene just waiting to be exercised, and burns are very serious business.