Tag: Scalds

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Never sprinkle salt on the wound.

Today, I saw a piece of news on a popular microblog: A mother sprinkled salt on the wound of her one-year-old daughter who had just been scalded by boiling water because she heard that saline can diminish inflammation. As a result, the doctor gave her a notice of critical illness. According to netizens’ comments, when I was a child, my mother sprinkled salt, vinegar, soy sauce, flour, garlic and sesame oil on my scalds. It sounds like garlic mashed white meat instead of treating scalds. There are also people who apply toothpaste and soap, which are all unreliable methods for scalding. Why can’t salt be sprinkled? People will say that hospitals often use saline to clean wounds? But the hospital Read More …

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Hydrothermal scald, how to do?

Emergency Treatment Small area thermal burns (usually second degree) are generally treated as follows: Rinse the wound under flowing tap water, cut off the clothes around the wound surface with scissors under cold water for at least 15 minutes, take off the clothes around the wound surface, slowly take off the clothes around the wound surface, soak in cold water for 30 minutes, and use silver-containing burn cream. In fact, whether it is burns from hot bodies or burns from open flames, this kind of skin damage affected by heat is almost the same for skin. Never The water temperature for rinsing and soaking should not be lower than 5 degrees Celsius. It is best not to apply ice at Read More …

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Never sprinkle salt on the wound.

Today, I saw a piece of news on a popular microblog: A mother sprinkled salt on the wound of her one-year-old daughter who had just been scalded by boiling water because she heard that saline can diminish inflammation. As a result, the doctor gave her a notice of critical illness. According to netizens’ comments, when I was a child, my mother sprinkled salt, vinegar, soy sauce, flour, garlic and sesame oil on my scalds. It sounds like garlic mashed white meat instead of treating scalds. There are also people who apply toothpaste and soap, which are all unreliable methods for scalding. Why can’t salt be sprinkled? People will say that hospitals often use saline to clean wounds? But the hospital Read More …

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Beware of hand warmers [low heat burns]

A few days ago, I met such a patient. Her name is Xiao Wang. At the age of 20, Because of the cold weather, I bought a hand warmer online, I like to put my hand warmer under my body when I sleep. One night, Xiao Wang was tired and slept soundly. He woke up in the morning and felt pain on the outside of his left lower leg, with local redness and small blisters. After that, he broke and scar. Due to long-term failure to heal, Xiao Wang went to the hospital. After the doctor checked, he found that the original hand warmer scalded the skin, and the skin at the scalded place was necrotic. After the doctor’s treatment Read More …