Treating Skin Burns

Burns! They’re a fact of life, and one of the most common accidents around the house. But how you treat them depends upon how seriously the skin is damaged.

Burns are classified according to their severity:

Burns are often categorized as first-, second-, or third-degree burns, depending on how badly the skin is damaged. Each of the injuries above can cause any of these three types of burn. But both the type of burn and its cause will determine how the burn is treated. All burns should be treated quickly to reduce the temperature of the burned area and reduce damage to the skin and underlying tissue (if the burn is severe).

First-degree burns, the mildest of the three, are limited to the top layer of skin:

• Signs and symptoms: These burns produce redness, pain, and minor swelling. The skin is dry without blisters.
• Healing time: Healing time is about 3 to 6 days; the superficial skin layer over the burn may peel off in 1 or 2 days.

Second-degree burns are more serious and involve the skin layers beneath the top layer:

• Signs and symptoms: These burns produce blisters, severe pain, and redness. The blisters sometimes break open and the area is wet looking with a bright pink to cherry red color.
• Healing time: Healing time varies depending on the severity of the burn.

Third-degree burns are the most serious type of burn and involve all the layers of the skin and underlying tissue:

• Signs and symptoms: The surface appears dry and can look waxy white, leathery, brown, or charred. There may be little or no pain or the area may feel numb at first because of nerve damage.
• Healing time: Healing time depends on the severity of the burn. Deep second- and third-degree burns (called full-thickness burns) will likely need to be treated with skin grafts, in which healthy skin is taken from another part of the body and surgically placed over the burn wound to help the area heal.

So we can clearly see the difference between the first- and second-degree burn here in that the second-degree burn is blistering and has broken the skin. Whereas the first-degree burn was just tender and swollen, but there'll be no break in the integrity or the surface of the skin. The third-degree burns will be clearly different because there will be holes or chunks missing. Tissue has actually been destroyed.

While a third degree burn calls for emergency medical treatment, many first and second degree burns can be treated at home. The first step for both is running cool water over them for several minutes.

That's going to do two things. First of all, it's going to clean the wound, as I said, and it's also going to reduce the pain and swelling that the patient is feeling.

Water is enough for most first-degree burns. But second-degree burns need protection.

Whenever the skin is broken, that allows for contaminants or bacteria to enter, so we're going to cover the wound with a dry sterile bandage to prevent any bacteria or contaminants from entering into the wound and beginning the infection process.

Breaking the blister is a no-no.

The blisters are much like workforces sent by the body to accomplish the repairing of the skin or the damaged tissue that has been affected by the burn or the wound. So breaking them would be counterproductive to what the body is attempting to do. ANNOUNCER: Even with first and second-degree burns, there are times you want to see a doctor.

If a burn is larger than two or three inches in diameter, then you probably want to see a doctor, because that seems pretty severe. And if it's on certain parts of the body that are used more frequently like the inside of your hand, your fingers, your elbows, any sort of joints which are going to have a constant and repetitive motion.

Following these steps can keep minor accidents from turning into major problems.

If the burn heals and when the crusts fall off there is a mark or scar, or if your instint tells you that is what you will see, start applying BIOSKINCARE as early as possible and you will most probably achieve scarless healing or the scarring will diminish to nothing in a very short period of time with disciplined application of a little cream twice a day every day on the area.

Treating Burns

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