How to treat nitric acid burns

Nitric acid burns are a relatively serious condition because nitric acid is a corrosive liquid. If it comes into contact with the skin, it will cause skin burns and pain, as well as burn the skin's nerve tissue. We need to clean the injured skin in time. It is best to soak the injured skin in clean water or use iodine solution to clean it. For serious situations like nitric acid burns, we should know how to provide first aid.

1. After a nitric acid burn, the injured skin should be cleaned as soon as possible: We all know that the biggest symptom of burns on the skin is high temperature, swelling and pain. In more serious cases, blisters will form, so the wound should be cooled as soon as possible after the burn. The burned skin can be cleaned with clean water, or simply soaked in clean water to achieve the purpose of cooling and relieving pain to the wound as quickly as possible.

2. After the skin burned by nitric acid is soaked for a period of time, when the temperature of the wound drops and the pain is relieved, wipe off the moisture on the wound with a towel, dry the skin, and apply iodine to the affected area for disinfection. If blisters have formed, consider applying burn plaster or Chinese medicine powder, and then gently wrap the wound with cotton gauze to prevent the blisters from being broken by being touched.

3. If the burn area is large and the symptoms are severe, and self-treatment cannot solve the fundamental problem, you should decisively and promptly go to the burn department of a regular hospital for further disposal and treatment to avoid delaying treatment and increasing damage to the burned skin.

4. Summarize the lessons, take active precautions, and reduce the chance of skin burns by nitric acid again: Remember that before contacting strong acid solutions such as nitric acid or doing nitric acid experiments, you should make careful plans and think about prevention and treatment measures for sudden accidents such as burns to be prepared and try to avoid burn accidents.

In short, nitric acid burns are a common phenomenon for people who are often exposed to strong acid environments. I hope that this group of people can learn more about this aspect and actively accumulate experience and methods for dealing with emergency accidents, so that when the skin is burned by strong acid, they can take necessary first aid measures according to their skin damage and choose appropriate ointments for external application treatment. For their own health, I hope everyone will learn more common sense and perform first aid as soon as possible to reduce pain. If the burn is serious, you should go to a regular hospital for treatment in time.