In situations where anyone can suffer from sun, chemical, thermal or electrical damage to the skin, the spray from burns should be always at hand. First aid for household or work injuries is necessary to treat affected skin and relieve acute pain. At the same time, it is not recommended to touch the injured surface, since touching can infect the skin, and also cause indescribable suffering in a person. Therefore, the spray-shaped product is ideal for treating burn surfaces.
The best remedies for skin burns in the form of a spray
Of the pharmaceutical preparations that are used to effectively treat skin burns at various stages, aerosols and sprays are considered the best. Any spray from burns is easily sprayed onto the affected area, allowing it to be processed in a non-contact manner. This is a great advantage when choosing a drug, which, having in its composition an anesthetic component, eliminates unpleasant sensations.
Features of popular burn remedies
To treat sunburn and other thermal burns, including a boiling water burn, from the first minutes you can use a gentle airy foam in the form of a spray - Panthenol. The price of a spray can (130 ml) today is about 250-300 rubles.
Another popular remedy for burns - aerosol "Olazol" - is good for thermal and
chemical burns, including for long non-healing skin lesions.
Sea buckthorn oil, which is part of it, stimulates regeneration processes in the dermis and helps accelerate tissue healing. But doctors do not recommend using this tool for sunburn, since the antibiotic chloramphenicol included in its composition can cause allergic reactions (rash, fever and others). Bepanten Spray for Burns
noticeably alleviates symptoms after violation of the integrity of the skin as a result of chemical or physical, as well as sunburn. Its main active ingredient is dexpanthenol, which has regenerative and anti-inflammatory properties. It is also included in the well-known Panthenol Burn Spray.
Instructions for use of the drug "Panthenol" (spray)
The manufacturer defines the Panthenol spray as a pharmaceutical from a group of reparants. It is used to treat wounds and burns on the surface of the skin. The main active ingredient is dexpanthenol (provitamin B5). When it enters the body, it is converted to pantothenic acid, identical to natural, which is found in almost all tissues of our body. Its deficiency, which is experienced by a burn affected skin, is filled with D-panthenol.
Pantothenic acid, a derivative of dexpanthenol, stimulates the
regeneration of the skin, accelerates the restoration of epithelial tissue, increases turgor of the dermis by enhancing the strength of collagen fibers. In addition to restoring properties, burn spray
Panthenol has anti-inflammatory and healing properties, helps to quickly eliminate the effects of burn injuries, and also protects tissues from scarring.
Dosage and administration form of the preparation "Panthenol"
Pantenol spray is sprayed onto the skin for burns of the first or second degree, most often occurring in everyday life or under direct sunlight. Such injuries are easily treatable at home. “Panthenol” spray is applied locally from the very first minute until the tissues are completely healed. This usually occurs within 3-15 days. The spray can is shaken before spraying and held vertically, evenly covering the entire affected area with foam. The thinnest film is formed above the burn site in a few seconds, which has a dermatoprotective effect and retains moisture to accelerate tissue regeneration in the injured area of the skin.
Sunburn spray
"Panthenol" is available in aerosol cans at a concentration of 4, 63% of the active ingredient in a volume of 130 and 58 grams.
Antimicrobial drug "Bepanten"
The analogue of the well-known Pantenol burn spray is a universal burn spray Bepanten also contains the active substance, dexpanthenol (50 mg / ml). In combination with the antiseptic chlorhexidine (5 mg / ml), the drug has an analgesic effect, well cools damaged skin and protects it from infection. The ability of D-panthenol to be absorbed helps it to penetrate into skin cells, where this substance is converted to pantothenic acid and replenishes the reserve of its own (endogenous) vitamin B5. When applied, dexpanthenol is well absorbed, accelerates biochemical reactions in the cells of the dermis, contributes to the rapid healing and prevention of tissue scarring.
Bepanten-spray does not leave a greasy shine and is easily washed off, it is recommended to be sprayed twice a day on previously cleansed or inflamed skin areas. The duration of treatment is determined by the doctor and is usually one to two weeks. The need for further treatment should be agreed with your doctor.
The drug "Olazol" in the form of a spray: instructions
A rich cocktail of active substances in the burn remedy “Olazol-spray” includes: the antibiotic “Levomycetin”, the pain medication “Anestezin” and activating the regeneration processes in the tissues - sea buckthorn oil. Aerosol spray from burns with sea buckthorn Olazol is recommended for the treatment of complex, long-term non-healing or infected burns (including boiling water).
In the optimal combination of the components of the drug: anestezin - quickly and for a long time blocks the pain syndrome; chloramphenicol - a broad-spectrum antibiotic - is effective against a large number of bacteria that threaten to penetrate the affected tissue. It also contains a unique product - sea buckthorn oil - a natural anti-inflammatory,
wound healing agent with a mild antibacterial effect and skin regenerating activity; boric acid, which destroys the protein compounds of microorganisms, inhibits their development and reproduction.
Contraindications to sprays from burns
If Panthenol and its analogues are undesirable for people suffering from hypersensitivity to the components of these drugs, then Olazol is contraindicated not only because of allergic reactions to chloramphenicol and its other components. The foam of this product should not be applied to patients who have impaired kidney and gastrointestinal tract, pregnant women, nursing mothers. Doctors do not recommend treating burns with Olazol aerosol located over wide areas of the body.
Tips & Testimonials
To quickly restore the skin after a household burn injury of 1-2 degrees, doctors recommend applying the first several days with dexpanthenol four times a day, and then switch to double treatment. If you do not feel discomfort, then “Panthenol” and its analogues can be kept on the surface of the skin until the product is completely absorbed.
Dexpanthenol sprays cannot be used to treat wet wounds. In the case of the formation of a greasy film, after one and a half to two hours, the remaining spray can be washed off carefully. After treatment, continue to use Panthenol (to improve the appearance of the skin) is undesirable, as it is necessary to give the skin a rest. Vitamin B5 is not a hormonal component, but is involved in the synthesis of adrenal hormones.
Prolonged intervention in the synthesis chain in the endocrine system can lead to malfunctions in its operation. The pharmacists consider the advantages of the Olazol spray to be the quick healing of burns of any etiology (including wet wounds), except for excessive tanning. This aerosol is widely used in the clinical practice of burn centers.
The universal remedy "Olazol" is used today both in the leading medical centers of the country, and in the departments of surgery, traumatology of city hospitals. Reviews about "Panthenol" and its analogues can be found mostly positive. Users praise it for its convenience, for a good, effective result of treatment, advise families with children to have a “Panthenol” spray in their home medicine cabinet. But sometimes there are negative responses. For example, a doctor prescribed Panthenol to a patient with a burn of boiling water, the drug restored the skin, but did not relieve the pain. As a result, the victim applied again and switched to the domestic "Olazol". The effect of this drug liked more.
Keep in mind that after a beach or tanning bed, it is better to treat a burn with sprays containing dexpanthenol (Panthenol and Bepanten).