A person uses hot water constantly throughout his life. It is used for preparing various drinks and dishes. But, unfortunately, inattention leads to the fact that a person inadvertently douses himself with boiling water. Often, skin burns affect children. Yes, and adults are repeatedly faced with such an unpleasant problem. By the way, you can get burned not only with water, but also with hot fat, hot dishes or the same iron. Timely first aid and effective remedies for burns will help alleviate the suffering of the victim.
What is a burn?
A burn is damage to skin tissue under the influence of various factors: thermal or chemical. This article discusses thermal burns with boiling water, hot oil and folk remedies for their treatment. Note that such injuries are dangerous not only by visible damage to the skin. Due to a burn, there is a failure in the metabolism, the work of the kidneys and heart. A person's body temperature rises, vomiting opens.
According to statistics, it is burns that are in second place among the cases that caused death. Most often, the lack of first aid to the victim leads to death. People nearby are, as a rule, not competent in medical matters, and many people don’t even know folk remedies for burns with boiling water. That is why it is so important to have certain knowledge and skills, in which case to provide first aid, which not only contributes to the speedy recovery of the victim, but also often acts as a key factor in saving his life.
Burn with boiling water: first degree
Thermal burns caused by skin contact with boiling water come in four grades. Consider the first of them. With a burn of this degree, the epidermis is damaged, the affected area immediately turns red and swells. A person feels a strong burning sensation and pain. What to do in a similar situation? You can treat the burn with Pantenol ointment. After a few days everything goes away, small pigment spots remain. Over time, they will also disappear.
To treat the burn surface, doctors recommend using a spray containing dexpanthenol, which has a healing and anti-inflammatory effect. Such a component is part of a drug of European quality - Panthenol Spray. Experts note that the drug prevents the development of inflammation, quickly removes burning, redness and other unpleasant signs of a burn. Panthenol Spray is an original drug, it has been tested for years and is very popular, therefore it has many analogues in a pharmacy with very similar packaging. Most of these analogues are registered as cosmetics according to a simplified procedure that does not require clinical trials, so the composition of such products is not always safe. In some cases, it includes parabens - potentially dangerous substances that can trigger tumor growth. Therefore, when choosing a spray from burns, it is very important not to make a mistake. Pay attention to the composition, country of manufacture and packaging - the original product is manufactured in Europe and has a characteristic emoticon next to the name on the package. If we talk about folk remedies, then they, unlike medicines, can not always quickly and effectively rid the skin of a burn.
In every house there is a remedy for burns. At home, fresh cabbage will help relieve the condition. Quickly tear off one sheet, remember it well in your hands and attach to a sore spot. Burning will pass, and the swelling will begin to subside.
Second degree
Second-degree burns are characterized by severe reddening of the skin, its exfoliation and the formation of blisters filled with liquid. When the bubbles burst, hyperemia does not disappear. Covering large areas of the body, a burn leads to a large loss of fluid. Therefore, the patient should drink a lot. If the wounds are not infected, the person recovers in about two weeks.
If you get severely burned so much that blisters appear, try to cool the affected area as soon as possible: you can use running water or a bowl of cold liquid. In no case do not apply ice to the wounds! Better yet, cover a sore spot with sterile gauze (moistened) or a bandage and call a doctor. Do not try to use various folk remedies for burns with boiling water: experiments will only aggravate the situation. Ointments and other preparations prepared at home have one huge minus: they are not sterile and are an excellent breeding ground for bacteria that cause infection. This will make treatment very difficult.
Third degree
Burns of the III degree are characterized by severe destruction of the skin and muscles. The victim suffers a burn shock: first there is excruciating, unbearable pain, and then the ability to feel or understand something is completely lost. The victim decreases pressure and pulse. If large areas of the body are damaged, death occurs.
But even if burns are amenable to therapy, scabs and ulcers remain on the affected areas, and scars remain after the final treatment. No home remedies for burns will help here (whether it is boiling water, oil - it does not matter). No need to waste precious time, it is better to urgently call a doctor. And before his arrival, cover the burned places with sterile bandages so that the infection does not penetrate.
Fourth degree
With this degree of burns, the skin is charred, fiber, muscle, and bone are destroyed. Very often the victim does not even feel pain. This is due to damage to the nerve endings. The victim must be hospitalized. Do not attempt to remove adhered clothing from your skin before your doctor arrives. It only hurts. But a plentiful drink will benefit (if the patient is conscious). Remember: treatment of a burn with home remedies should not be undertaken in a similar situation!
First aid for a burn with boiling water
It is very important immediately after a burn to reduce the negative effects of hot water. This will reduce pain and prevent the destruction of the deep layers of the skin. To do this, do the following:
- Quickly free the damaged area from clothing; if necessary, remove it completely.
- Substitute the burnt place under a stream of cold, but not ice water for 10-20 minutes. This will reduce the area of damage, prevent the appearance of blisters and speed up recovery. Remember, under cold water, the damaged part of the body can not be kept for a long time, otherwise frostbite can begin.It is better for some time to stop the effects of the cold, and then, if the pain does not subside, continue the procedure again. Many believe that the best remedy for burns is urine. She treats an inflamed area.
- Apply (but not bandage!) A sterile bandage moistened with water to the burnt area. It must not dry, it must always be moistened. This will prevent the spread of infection. You can use another remedy for burns at home - coolly brewed tea: green or black. They are wetted with bandages. The main thing is that they do not dry out. You can quickly wash the potatoes, grate it with a fine grater along with the peel and apply the pulp directly to the burn. This will help relieve redness and reduce pain. The compress must be covered with a sterile bandage. If there is no grater, tea leaves, teapot nearby, take the flour and sprinkle thoroughly on the burned place. Top with a clean gauze or bandage.
- Cream "ARGOSULFAN ® " promotes the healing of abrasions and small wounds. The combination of the antibacterial component of silver sulfathiazole and silver ions helps to provide a wide range of antibacterial action of the cream. You can apply the drug not only to wounds located in open areas of the body, but also under dressings. The tool has not only a wound healing, but also an antimicrobial effect, and in addition, promotes wound healing without a rough scar 1 .
- If you yourself have visually determined that the degree of damage to the skin is not the first, do not use any remedies for burns with boiling water. Cover the affected area with a sterile bandage, call a doctor. While you wait for his arrival, drink as much liquid as possible to prevent dehydration. If hospitalization is required, do not refuse it. A burn is a very serious injury.
Prohibited Tricks
- Immediately after a burn, treating with solutions and lubricating the ointment with the ointment is not recommended: because of the formed crust, heat transfer deteriorates.
- Remember! Do not lubricate burns with oil, kefir, sour cream. They will not bring benefits, and time can be missed.
- If bubbles form at the burn site, in no case do not open or rip them off! Blisters are not the first degree of a burn. Call a doctor immediately!
- Do not apply ice to the wound. Frostbite may begin.
- Do not lubricate the burn with iodine, brilliant green or other alcohol-containing drugs - this will prevent the doctor from assessing the degree of skin damage.
- If the skin is damaged by a burn on different parts of the body, do not allow them to come into contact.
- When you apply a sterile bandage to a sore spot moistened with water or some other solution, do not bandage the wound!
Scar treatment
If a person has received serious skin damage with boiling water, and after their treatment there are scars left, folk remedies after burns help get rid of them. Here is some of them:
- Hard boiled eggs with yellow shells (30 pieces). Put a frying pan with well-mashed yolks on a slow fire. When the mass becomes bright yellow, remove the capacity from the fire. Put the yolks in cheesecloth and squeeze the liquid out of them. She lubricate the scars daily until they disappear completely.
- Thoroughly grind and combine melon seeds and eggshells, taken in equal proportions. Add vegetable oil there, mix again until a thick slurry forms and apply it on the scar daily for two consecutive months.
ethnoscience
In the case of a minor burn, first aid is given to the person. How to do this is described above. If there is no need for hospitalization of the victim, he is treated at home. There are many recipes for traditional medicine. This article introduces the reader to some of them.
- If there are bubbles after the burn and begin to burst, there is a good remedy for burns at home. This is a self-made powder, which is sprinkled with wounds. Bean beans are chopped and dried. But you need to do this in the oven so that the causative agents of the infection die.
- You can wash the wounds after a burn with a saffron decoction. For this, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of stigmas boil in one glass of water for 30 minutes, cool and filter.
- Relieves redness and swelling with a burn compress from pumpkin juice. Moisten gauze in it and attach to a sore spot.
There are many recipes for traditional medicine for burns. Home remedies are good if the infection has not spread. This must be remembered and not overly carried away.
Traditional medicine
Many people, even with minor burns, go to the doctor. It’s right, it’s better to be safe than sorry for a long and painful treatment. Depending on the severity of the injury, the specialist prescribes treatment. Currently, there are various remedies for burns with boiling water, which can relieve redness, accelerate the healing process of wounds, and prevent the spread of infection. The most effective drugs are "Rescuer", "Solcoseryl" and "Panthenol" spray.
In any case, each patient receives an individual treatment, which the doctor prescribes based on the general condition of the patient, the characteristics of his body and the degree of burn. Self-medication is unacceptable - it provokes complications that lead to the need for surgical intervention, and in the worst cases - to death.
Oil burns: degrees
A common household injury is a burn of hot oil. A distinctive feature is deep damage to the skin and prolonged exposure to hot fat due to the complexity of its removal from the skin. Oil burns come in four degrees of severity:
- The first degree is characterized by damage to the upper layers of the skin. There is redness and swelling. You can treat such burns at home.
- The second degree is characterized by a deep skin lesion. Bubbles form with fluid inside. The victim feels severe pain, but there is no threat to life. With a small burn, treatment can be carried out at home, as spontaneous healing of wounds occurs.
- The third degree is characterized by the necrosis of all layers of the skin. Blisters form with a bloody dark fluid inside. They burst themselves, exposing a bright red surface. In especially severe cases, this surface becomes dark in color, the victim ceases to feel pain. This indicates that the germ layer of the skin has died, and spontaneous healing is impossible.
- The fourth degree is characterized by the complete death of all skin and underlying layers of tissue: bones, tendons and muscles. Treatment takes place in a hospital. No folk remedy for burns at home will help. In this case, they resort to a skin transplant. The only consolation is that oil burns of the third and fourth degrees are very rare in everyday life.
First aid
- To reduce pain and limit the area of damage, you need to cool the affected area. To do this, the burned part of the body is quickly substituted under a cold stream of water for 10 minutes.
- Next, the oil is removed from the skin with a cotton swab dipped in soapy water.
- The burn site is examined: if the skin turns a little red and small bubbles appear, such an injury can be treated at home. A good remedy for oil burns is a dark laundry soap. The foam quickly whips and the burn is lubricated with it. It will help relieve hyperemia and swelling of chalk, soda or starch. They need to be attached to a sore spot. If the blisters are large and filled with liquid, carefully cover the burned area with a sterile bandage and go to a doctor.
Treatment
Often after an oil burn, suppuration of the wounds occurs. In this case, it is recommended to use antimicrobial ointments: Fusiderm or Fusimet. These drugs prevent staph infections caused by staphylococcus. Ointment "Fusimet" promotes healing of the skin - this is due to methyluracil, which is part of it.
If the victim has a mild burn, and treatment is carried out at home, you can use folk remedies that are easy to prepare on your own. Recipes of some of them:
- Egg white and
- Nettle flowers (30 grams) are poured with boiling water (1 liter), insisted for 3 hours and filtered. Infusion is used as compresses.
- If there is honey in the house, you can lubricate them with burns. Honey compresses relieve pain and promote wound healing.