Burn injuries, family first aid Siping Municipal Central Hospital Hand Surgery Zhou Le friends and relatives to the home party, frying cooking Yang Yang proficient Mr. Yang is ready to show a good hand, but how do you think, do the last deep-fried meatballs, the left hand accidentally splashed by the hot oil burns. When he came to the hospital, Mr. Yang has done the initial treatment: rinse with tap water for ten minutes, and then according to the way he told him to smear on the toothpaste, said the pain in the scalded area is slightly relieved. Upon observation, the injury in the left hand index finger and middle finger, the total area of about 4 cm, reddish color, no blisters. The diagnosis is I degree burns. Dr. Zhou’s analysis: Since Mr. Yang’s burns are located on his hand, and the area is not large, and the contact time is short, it is a mild burn, so it is completely correct to give toothpaste and apply it directly to the wound after cleaning the injury with water. Cold water and toothpaste have a calming effect on the skin. How can there be any shortage of firecrackers during the festive season? Xiao Yuan and his classmates were playing with firecrackers when he was accidentally burned by the flame coming out of the firecrackers. Observe the condition, the left hand index finger and thumb burned by fireworks, was jet-like, peripheral dark brown, the center of the yellowish charcoal, pain. Immediately take povidone-iodine to clean, after removing the surface layer of smoldering material, found that the center of the burn blisters. Dr. Zhou’s analysis: It is recommended that the blister fluid will be extracted with a sterile syringe, and the burn cream will be applied externally, supplemented with antibiotics orally in order to prevent secondary infection. Newlywed Ms. Wang and her husband went to the Maldives for their honeymoon, sunshine, beach, waves, diving, not happy. In order to prevent sunburn, Ms. Wang specially prepared SPF value of 50 times the sunscreen. But because of the last day of the trip, Ms. Wang feel the sun is not very strong, wipe the sunscreen only pay attention to the face and arms, in the stay on the beach chairs in the hut, which want to wake up, below the neck part of the sunburn, infected with a burning sensation, the color of deep red. Dr. Zhou’s analysis: This is a typical sunburn, if there is no inflammation of the skin, usually after 1 week time can be self-healing. It is recommended to apply Fuchun San on the affected area, which can remove the burning sensation and prevent the aggravation of dermatitis at the same time, and effectively promote the healing process. Ms. Li’s foot was burned by the exhaust pipe when she was riding a motorcycle. After a simple treatment, she thought it was not a big problem, but she didn’t want to see the skin peeling off and the area was red and swollen two days later. Dr. Zhou’s analysis: Because of the high temperature of the exhaust pipe, the degree of scald is more serious, and Ms. Lin did not take the correct treatment measures, resulting in secondary infection, so it is necessary to go to the hospital for treatment. Mr. Zhang went to a roadside store for treatment of foot odor. After the store gave Mr. Zhang some medication, the surface of his feet burned and itched, and there was swelling, which appeared as a dry brown color, with a small amount of residual white powder around the edges. Dr. Zhou’s analysis: After observation, Mr. Zhang’s feet should be lime alkali burns (later with the owner of the store that lime). Chemical burns have a gradual deepening characteristics, it is recommended that Mr. Zhang first rinse the foot surface with running water for at least 30 minutes to prevent further deepening of the chemical substance, and then go to the hospital for treatment. Correct treatment: burns generally refers to the body surface tissue damage due to heat, such as boiling liquid (water, oil, soup), hot metal (liquid or solid), flames, steam and hot gases, etc., mainly refers to the skin and mucous membranes and other traumatic diseases, there are traumatic pain, progressive necrosis, susceptibility to infection, scarring healing and other problems. In general, if only a small area of mild burns, in the absence of broken skin, should be quickly burned area with tap water gently rinsed for about half an hour to an hour, the time to the injured area no longer feel the pain until, these practices can prevent the expansion of the area of the burns and injury aggravation. If there has been a broken skin, blisters and other phenomena, indicating that the degree of burns is more serious, should not be rinsed with water to prevent infection of the wound, should immediately go to the hospital for treatment, do not take some “local methods”, such as smearing soy sauce, cooking oil, purple potion and so on. When encountered with the phenomenon of burns, the most important thing is to timely and correct emergency treatment. Do not think that the wound area is small, do not pay attention to, do not go to the hospital, the wrong medication, resulting in aggravation of the condition.