You touch the iron, you get steam in your face when you take the lid off a saucepan, and you splash some grease on yourself when cooking breakfast. It is easy to burn yourself occasionally.
- Stop the burning process- flush the burn with lots of colds water.
- Cold water and lots of it, not ice, should be applied, by pouring water over the burned area.
- Prompt cooling can halt the progression of any burn and can prevent damage to the deeper layer of the skin.
- First degree: skin is reddened.
- Second degree: skin is reddened with blistering.
- Third degree: Entire thickness of the skin and the underlying muscles has been destroyed.
- Third degree burns need immediate professional attention.
- Second and third degree burns can be treated, after cooling, by applying honey under a dry dressing. It is a cleansing and healing agent.
- Do not apply butter or ointment and do not break the blisters, as those bubbles of raised skin are nature’s own best damage.
- Aloe Vera is excellent after healing has begun. Vitamin E applied when healing has begun may prevent scarring.
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