How to treat a hot hand burned by boiling water

The hand is hot and burning by boiling water, the patient can take cold therapy, oral painkillers and topical medications applied and other methods. If there are uncomfortable symptoms in time to the regular hospital for treatment. 1. Cold therapy: patients scalded in time after cold therapy to alleviate the heat to reduce the damage to the wound, and can reduce pain, inhibit oozing and edema, the sooner the inhibition of the effect of the better. Patients can take the method is the scald wound in the tap rinse can also be immersed in 15 ~ 20 ℃ of cold water, hot weather can be placed in ice water. You can also put a towel or gauze pad cool water wet compress on the wound, also has the effect. Time at least 30 minutes or more. 2. Oral painkillers and topical application: patients take oral painkillers such as ibuprofen extended-release capsules, aspirin tablets, etc. as prescribed by the doctor to reduce the pain. Commonly used topical antimicrobial drugs for burn wounds are silver sulfadiazine. In the early stage of burn wounds can be appropriate application of growth factors, such as topical recombinant human epidermal growth factor, in order to accelerate wound healing. As long as the patient follows the doctor’s instructions, active treatment, generally superficial burns can achieve good healing results.