First aid for burned boiling water at home

Burn - acute damage to the skin and underlying tissues. The burn can be different: electric, radiation, chemical, thermal. In most situations in the domestic environment there is a burn with boiling water. How severe the damage to the skin and tissue becomes will depend on the location of the burn. The easiest way to burn your hand with boiling water, accidentally pouring only boiled water.

It is most difficult to burn the face, neck, hips and shoulders, but on these parts of the body the burn will be much deeper than on the hands, even if the hot water did not last long. Burns to the back and lower limbs (especially in the area of ​​the feet) are more rarely possible to be deep, the healing process is faster. A face burn poses a serious danger to life, since such lesions are often accompanied by damage to the eyes, mouth, and respiratory organs.

How to give first aid for burns boiling water

As a rule, a person who has received a thermal burn, is lost, begins to fuss and panic. Regardless of who overturned the boiled water — an adult or a child — should be rendered immediately. What measures should be taken with thermal burn?

Actions must be correct and clear:

1. Remove wet things. Especially quickly need to get rid of clothes from synthetics. At this point, you do not need to think about the price of things, you should not regret your favorite outfit. The fastest way to release the affected skin from clothing can be using scissors, which need to cut the thing. Actions must be extremely careful. We must try not to hook the skin with scissors, so as not to injure the blisters. The resulting blisters should not be rubbed or scratched, otherwise an infection will easily penetrate under the inflamed skin.
2. Place the affected area under cool water. It is necessary that the jet of water was not too powerful. A good solution would be to put the burned place in a bath or basin where cold water is poured. In a similar way, it will be possible to prevent the appearance of edema, reduce pain, cool down damaged skin and nearby tissues.After 15 minutes, you need to soak the skin with a clean, lint-free, non-rigid tissue, apply a sterile dressing. In no case can not be tied with a bandage damaged area, it is necessary that it covered the skin, and not rubbed and pressed on it. The greater the number of bubbles, the less weak it is necessary to make a bandage.

Burn degree

What measures need to be taken with a thermal burn depends on its degree. To define it, you should pay attention to the following signs:

1. The first degree - there is redness and a slight burn of the skin, the person feels pain of varying severity, blisters are absent.
2. The second degree - after a few minutes blisters appear on the affected area, filled with clear yellow liquid contents. The victim feels very sore.
3. The third degree - a large number of bubbles appear, the skin begins to "peel". Severe pain, the surface of the skin is a scarred wound. Dark or gray scabs appear on the site where the tissues have died.

The fourth degree is diagnosed when more than 50 percent of the skin has been affected. The condition of the victim is rapidly deteriorating, he is experiencing a painful shock. Where the burns are the deepest, scars and ulcers are formed that do not heal. Until the moment when the patient recovers, not a single month can pass. After serious damage to the skin, there are often aesthetic defects that spoil the appearance of a person.

Fact! In very rare cases, the loss of boiling water leads to a fourth-degree burn. Basically, the first or second is diagnosed, not so often - the third degree of burn.

Can I apply ointment on the burned place?

Many try immediately after receiving a burn to smear a sore spot with a medicine. However, before you do this, you should remember a very important statement “do no harm!”. In case of doubt, it is better not to apply any ointment on the affected skin.

It is impossible to smear the wound with oils, fats of animal or vegetable origin, greasy ointments, because of this the temperature of the affected area cannot fall, under the oily film there is a rapid reproduction of microbes.

Treatment methods

After the person who received the burn has been given the necessary first aid, you need to contact a medical institution or call a doctor at home. Should focus on the condition of the victim and the severity of the damage. In case of severe burns, you must immediately call in emergency care.

Treat the patient in intensive care in intensive care, in a specialized burn unit. In case of third and fourth degree burns, hospitalization means saving the life of the injured person - in severe thermal burns, infection often occurs in the wound, which is dangerous if serious complications occur.

Medications
The following pharmaceutical agents are used for the therapy and treatment of the area calcined by boiling water:

1. Panthenol. A modern medicine that has found widespread use in skin lesions of various kinds. According to its consistency means like shaving foam. Drawing is carried out from a barrel. This method is considered more convenient for the treatment of burned skin.
2. Olazol. The drug effectively relieves pain, helps to prevent the spread of pathogenic microflora on the damaged skin. Promotes rapid healing of wounds. Drawing is carried out from a barrel.
3. Solcoseryl. A tool with high efficacy for burns of different origin. Form release - ointment or gel. Well heals wounds, reduces inflammatory process.
4. Gel wipes against burns. You can buy them in pharmacies. The tool acts as follows: cools the center of damage, reduces pain, fights microbes. After applying the gel wipes are easily removed.

Attention! It is forbidden to glue bandage, gauze, napkins with adhesive tape. After use, removing the tape is quite difficult, you can cause serious damage to the sore spot.

Treatment of burns folk remedies
Traditional medicine is known for a number of methods for treating burns, which have been approved by doctors. Such tools are effective and tested by any generation.

Recipes remedies for burns with boiling water:

1. Lotions with aloe. For the preparation of means it is necessary to cut off several agave leaves, chop and squeeze juice from them.Take a gauze napkin, moisten it in the prepared liquid and apply on a sore point. In the same way you can apply the leaf itself, which must be cut lengthwise and applied to the affected skin.
2. Egg. An ordinary chicken egg will help speed up the process of healing the wound resulting from boiling water burns. It is necessary to beat a little and the resulting composition to treat the sore spot. First, a burning sensation may occur, but after a couple of minutes the patient will feel relief. This tool is very effective for thermal burns. When used, it heals quickly and does not leave behind wounds and scars, even severe burns.
3. Sulfur and propolis. It is necessary to take 100 grams of butter and vegetable oil, beeswax, melted pork fat. Mix all ingredients thoroughly, add 1 tsp. propolis. Put a small amount of sulfur wrapped in gauze into the mixture. Put on low fire for 15 minutes. After that, strain and cool. Ready composition to treat the sore spot three times a day.
4. Tea. It is necessary to brew black tea, then cool it. The cooled brew should be applied to the damaged area. Apply a gauze bandage over the top, which you must first soak in brewed tea.The procedure is carried out up to eight times a day.
5. Plantain. Collected leaves pour boiling water, then drain the water and allow them to cool. Apply several times a day to the injured places.
6. Pumpkin compress. Grind the vegetable flesh with a grater, place the composition on a gauze napkin and gently attach to the sore spot.
7. Beet. Grind vegetable grated, put on the wound. Pain syndrome decreases rapidly.
8. Potatoes. This vegetable is also an affordable remedy for mild burns. Chop the grated potatoes. Apply the gruel to the injured area. The procedure lasts 60 minutes. During this time, every 10 minutes you should change one portion of grated vegetable to a new one.

Important! The use of folk remedies is allowed only if not severe degrees of burn with boiling water.

How long the healing process lasts depends on the degree of damage. A mild burn may go away after two or three days. The duration of the healing of a second-degree lesion will depend on the opening of the blister. For example, if an infection gets into a wound, it will heal for a very long time, in some cases several months.

What is forbidden to do with boiling water burn?

1. Treat damaged areas with fats and ointments, since such agents create ideal conditions for infection.
2. Treat the burn site with antiseptics such as manganese and alcohol solution, iodine. Such tools can provoke an increase in pain.
3. Apply ice to the affected area as this will cause frostbite.
4. Perform blister puncture. Such formations protect the wound from infection.

When should I go to the doctor?

Before conducting self-treatment, it is necessary to determine the extent of skin lesions. Sometimes the use of home remedies is strictly prohibited.

It is necessary to contact a medical institution in the following cases:

• A large area of ​​skin (the size of which exceeds the palm) was affected.
• The appearance of signs of infection after one or two days.
• The third and fourth degree burns.

So, in mild cases it may be enough to use drugs and traditional medicine. In case of aggravation of the symptoms of damage, it is imperative to seek medical help, otherwise serious complications may occur, as well as deep scars in the injured area.

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