Thermal burn in children

Kids can suffer from a fire, when boiling with boiling water or hot steam at home, get a burn from a hot iron or stove. Adults who are next to the affected child should not panic, fuss. It is necessary to provide children with first aid quickly and correctly and send them to the hospital. How severe a thermal burn the child has received can be determined only by the doctor.

First of all, in case of an accident with children, call an ambulance. In the meantime, waiting for her, it is important to take the child out of the fire, to put out his clothes on it. You can extinguish the flame with water, sand or throw a blanket, blanket or jacket on the baby. If the clothes on the child smolder, and there is no possibility to remove it quickly and easily, cover it with a blanket or a heavy cloth and close the access to oxygen, without which the burning will stop.

Do not remove clothes that are stuck to the skin, so as not to infect wounds in addition. It is enough to cut off the burnt clothes around the wounds. Never treat the burn surface with alcohol, manganese solution, to avoid pain shock. Do not open the blisters on the skin yourself, let the doctor do it with sterile tools. Never attach the patch to the skin, without oxygen access, the wound will not heal.

Thermal burn of the fingers and toes requires isolation of healthy and burned parts so that infection does not spread. If the ambulance is delayed, you must take the injured child to the hospital yourself. With burns on the face and hands, you can put the baby in your arms and go to the hospital. When injuries to the trunk and extremities in front, you must put the baby on his back. With burns on the buttocks and back, it is necessary to put the baby on the stomach.

Severe consequences cause a thermal burn, which teenagers receive during games with fire in the street. These can be improvised explosive devices, firecrackers, arson of dry grass in the steppe, when the flame suddenly spreads and affects children. When providing first aid to adolescents, you need to remove clocks, rings, other metal objects, unfasten the belt and cut off the clothes around the wound.

If you burn more than 5% of the skin of the body, burn your respiratory organs, face, head, abdomen, you must call an ambulance.

If the child moves and the degree of lesion is not deep, then it can be delivered to the hospital independently.

It is necessary to reassure the child, not to allow him to run, move, so as not to increase the impact of the fire and not get an even greater thermal burn. At the site of the injury you can impose a clean bandage of towels, sheets, pieces of cloth. Never treat the wound, do not use ointments and do not tear off pieces of stitched clothing so as not to infect the wound. Before entering the hospital, it is advisable to give the child unlimited water, sweet tea.

The burn with flames strongly frightens the child, he undergoes severe stress, therefore, in addition to medical treatment and rehabilitation, he needs the participation of parents and the help of a good psychologist.

When burned with boiling water, you must quickly remove clothing from him, thereby reducing the time of exposure to high heat to the delicate skin of the baby. Pulling the clothes away from the burn on the skin, you are already providing the necessary help. If a steam burns, you must pull the affected child away from the jet. Then it is necessary to substitute the burned part of the body under cold water for several minutes. Such simple tips help to significantly reduce the degree of burn.

The first help to the affected child can be any adult who has been around, and further treatment of thermal burns is already conducted by a doctor in a specialized hospital.