How to treat burn wounds

Burns are common in life. Unlike other injuries, burns are very painful. If this happens in the summer, patients have to worry about infection and pay attention to wound care at all times. If the wound is not handled properly, it will become inflamed and have to be disinfected with alcohol, resulting in a second injury. Therefore, burn patients must take good care of their wounds in normal times to avoid inflammation and having to go to the hospital for treatment again. So how should burn wounds be treated? Today I have brought you some tips on how to deal with burns. I hope that they will be helpful to you and that this article can help more patients deal with their wounds.

1. Rinse the wound with tap water. Whether it is a scald caused by boiling water or steam, you should first lower the temperature of the scalded skin to reduce further damage to the scalded area. At the same time, flushing with water can also reduce pain. If the wound is not broken, soak it for about 10 minutes. If the wound has broken, do not soak it again to avoid infection. If the burn area is too large, soak the entire body in the bathtub. You can also use a towel dipped in water to apply to areas that cannot be washed with water.

2. Don't take off your clothes in a hurry. When the burn is in a place covered by clothes, don't take off your clothes in a hurry to avoid tearing the blisters caused by the burn. You can rinse with water to cool down first, and then carefully remove the clothes.

3. Deal with blisters correctly. If there are blisters on the burn site, whether to break them should be analyzed based on the specific situation. Generally, do not break them to avoid leaving scars. However, sometimes if the blisters are large or located at joints that are more easily broken, they need to be punctured with a sterilized needle. If the blisters have already broken, use a sterilized cotton swab to wipe off the liquid flowing out from around the blisters.

4. Bandage with gauze. Apply some ointment on the burn first, then bandage with clean gauze. Untie the gauze after two days and check the wound. If there is improvement, continue to apply some ointment and then bandage it again. Generally, burns can heal within two weeks, but if the wound is found to be infected, you should seek medical treatment immediately.

Note: Do not apply toothpaste immediately after being scalded, as toothpaste will make it impossible for the heat from the skin to dissipate, so it can only diffuse deep into the subcutaneous tissue, thus causing deeper damage. Do not use soy sauce to treat wounds. First, soy sauce does not have any healing properties. Second, the color of soy sauce will affect the doctor's diagnosis.