How to treat burns at home?

Anyone at least once in my life, but burned. Burns are received not only by people who, due to their specialty, are associated with welding or sparks of fire, for example, steelworkers, firemen, rescuers. But in everyday life you can get a sufficient number of thermal injuries, because every day we use boiling water and hot electrical appliances, cook on a hot plate.

Curious babes

Little children especially often because of their curiosity suffer from burns: they try to touch an iron or a teapot, tilt cups with boiling water, turn on a hot water tap and many other examples. Even the most insignificant, all thermal lesions are painful, although they do not pose a serious threat to health. Therefore, the treatment of burns at home should be correct, carried out immediately after thermal shock.

How to conduct an inspection?

Examination of the burned area of the skin should be carried out by those who can quickly orient themselves in the degree of severity of injury and assess whether qualified medical care is needed. Before you can treat burns at home, you should determine the extent of the lesion. Physicians distinguish four degrees of severity of the affected area:

1. In the area of injury, the skin reddens and swells, bubbles appear with a liquid inside.
2. The skin is red and swollen, the bubbles burst or remain strained, a scab crust appears, which is formed due to the folded blood.
3. The burn is deep enough to affect the skin, muscles, bones; Formation of a scull.
4. Burned body tissues are charred. Virtually all degrees of thermal shock.

1 degree of severity

If a 1st degree burn occurs, treatment can be done at home on your own. It is necessary to always have gels or ointments containing NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), antibacterial drugs that help to quickly heal wounds and regenerate the skin, for example, Panthenol, Olazol.

Drugs are applied painlessly, once again not injuring the affected area, so even children will be suitable. Medicines provide natural heat exchange of skin and tissues, protect against the penetration of various kinds of infections.

Solutions against burns

At the received trauma treatment of burns in house conditions is spent by means of 60% of spirit. Place the formation of bubbles to be wiped At least twice a day with a solution of potassium permanganate with water (5%) or tannin (5%). These are powerful antiseptics, with the help of which a crust is formed on the affected skin, limiting the infection of the wound and alleviating the pain. After the wound was wiped, the bandage on top should not be applied.

Crafty cow-bearer

Injury can be obtained from cowworm, in which the poison contains furanocoumarin. Burns from this poison can not immediately manifest. And the ingestion of cowwort juice on the skin can even not be noticed. Therefore, the treatment of burns in the home is as follows: you need to quickly remove the juice by washing it off from affected areas with plenty of soap and water (if water is not available, at least blot with a cloth and then close with dense cloth). Then rinse with alcohol. Close the affected area for 2 days from the sun. If a hogweed is burned, treatment is carried out in the same way as in other species.

Do not burn yourself, take care!