First aid for pediatric burns

  There are often accidents in the family where children are burned or scalded, but because parents often do not do emergency treatment, they miss the opportunity to save the child in the initial time of the accident, and the child’s pain deepens, the greater the chance of leaving a scar. So what do we do when we encounter this situation?  First of all, don’t panic. If it is boiling water burns, steam burns or fire burns, as long as the area of 40% or less, burns immediately after the blisters and obviously feel pain, in short, belong to a small area, shallow, we must immediately get cold water or ice water, the injury soaked in cold water for half an hour to an hour, wait until the cold water from the feeling of no pain, and then slowly take off the wounded clothing, with clean dressings, bandages Wrap it up and send it to the hospital. If the area of the injury is very small, the degree is very light, after the cold water soak coated with some common drugs and then bandaged, after a few days will get better on its own. So you should always have some scald and burn medication at home in case you need it, and these medications can be found in general pharmacies. If a blister appears on the burn site, don’t pick it, but use a clean gauze pad and then bandage it up and go to the hospital. Never use zinc oxide ointment, soy sauce, toothpaste and other native methods to deal with the wound, because it is easy to cause wound infection. In order to buy time and prevent breaking blisters, you can wear clothes (such as outer clothing is very dirty, you can first remove the outer clothing) water to flush cooling, flush 5-20 minutes, and then gently remove the clothes, but should prevent the epidermis peeling, if necessary, you can cut off the clothes, with clean gauze bandage wound.  Early cold water treatment has great benefits for the healing of the wound, the first can reduce pain, the second can reduce edema, early burns cause vascular changes, many plasma-like things will flow out from the blood vessels, after cold water treatment, edema is light, less exudation. Thirdly, the use of cold water can reduce some of the toxic substances on the trauma and reduce the secondary damage to the trauma. Therefore, this kind of patient will heal faster and have less scarring in the future. So early treatment is very effective and simple. In the case of hot water burns, some people say that being scalded by hot water and then adding cold water is not a hot fire to the heart, but we think not. This kind of burn area under 40% of the patient, with cold water treatment is no problem, if the scald area is too large and use cold water to treat, may be a heavy systemic reaction, but a small area is not a problem, will only be beneficial.  Some burn patients, burn parts are in the head or respiratory tract, then even if the area is not large, there may be comorbidities, in addition to emergency treatment with cold water, in order to prevent the occurrence of shock, home to prepare some salt into saline, oral supplementation point saline, which can replenish his blood volume, while allowing the limbs slightly elevated can reduce the degree of shock, and so conditions, and then transferred to the hospital.