What to do if your hands are burned by steam

Hands scalded by steam should be rinsed in time, and then according to the severity of the scald line the next step in the treatment. Hands scalded by steam should be rinsed with cool water in a timely manner, continue to take away the heat of the scalded area, reduce the damage, it is best to rinse with running water for more than 20 minutes, but to avoid excessive water flow to break the blisters. Short time steam scalded hand, often depth is not deep, mostly one degree or shallow second degree scald. For different scalded injuries, different wound treatment is used. i degree scald, apply moist burn cream externally after the injury to reduce the pain. For superficial second-degree burns, the blisters are not too tense, so the blisters can be punctured after disinfection, and then bandaged after releasing the blister fluid, with regular dressing changes. For deeper burns, it is necessary to go to the hospital, and follow the doctor’s instructions to be clean and change the medicine, surgery and other treatments.