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What to do if burned with boiling water or steam?
Injuries resulting from thermal burns from boiling water or steam are no less dangerous than thermal injuries from fire. With first aid, the correct behavior of others or the victim himself from this kind of thermal burn plays an important role.
As a rule, when scalding the skin, the area and depth of tissue damage is important. A small superficial burn with hot water will only cause redness and bearable pain. Such a burn will go away in a few days and does not require special efforts to treat it, since it does not form blisters. Light burns are treated by lubricating the injury site with Panthenol at the time of the burn.
A deeper and more prolonged burn when scalding with boiling water or steam is accompanied by the appearance of bubbles, peeling of the surface layers of the skin (necrosis), and healing is accompanied by scarring of tissues.
It is very important to properly provide first aid in case of burns with boiling water or steam, so as not to cause additional injuries to the body to the existing ones.
What to do if burned with boiling water or steam?
- For large-scale burns, call an ambulance, since qualified anti-burn therapy will be required;
- Do not try to remove clothing from the burned area if it is stuck to the skin, but cut the fabric around the adhering areas. Otherwise (if the fabric is not stuck), remove the clothes;
- Do not lubricate burnt skin with products containing alcohol, oils (fatty creams and the like);
- Do not grease the burnt place with sour cream or kefir;
- If possible, cool the burnt place with cold running water;
- For large-scale burns with boiling water or steam, anti-shock therapy may be required, since such burns are accompanied by an intolerable pain syndrome, but an anesthetic (orally) can be used.
Treatment of wounds for burns with boiling water or steam is carried out on an inpatient or outpatient basis so as not to infect an infection.
Where can you get burns with boiling water or steam? Burns of this kind occur in case of water supply failures, in the bathhouse (sauna), in the kitchen with careless handling of boiling water.
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