Prevention and treatment of burn scarring

The worst thing about burns is that, in addition to the painful experience of changing medication or surgery during the course of the disease, the scar left behind after the wound heals is even more painful. 80% of a 1-year-old girl who accidentally burns her front chest with boiling water will be left with a scar: the girl may live her whole life under this unsightly “shadow”. How to avoid or greatly reduce scarring after burns? If you suffer a burn, don’t rush to the hospital, the first treatment measure must be to keep flushing the area with cool water for at least more than 2 hours. Cool towels, mineral water bottles, etc. can be used, but the effect is not as good as the first. It is worth mentioning that if ice is used, be sure to wrap a layer of towels or other items before touching the trauma. Burn blisters can appear or become larger up to 48 hours after the injury, so it is recommended that cold therapy be followed by a hospital visit. In addition to third-degree burns, hospital measures for the first treatment of the trauma are critical to the proliferation of the healing scar. I am not going to talk about the current mainstream treatment methods, not to advertise, but just to promote my experience that my department’s drug “submarine mud”, if used for the first time to dress burn wounds, will have a great effect on scar development, especially in children. Generally speaking, the incidence of scarring is less than 30% for burn wounds that have been changed within two weeks, and more than 70% for wounds that have been healed for more than three weeks. Therefore, parents or patients themselves can make an estimate based on the length of time it takes to change the medication. Once the scar inevitably appears, it is time to enter into treatment: 1. Within one and a half years, that is, the active proliferation period of the scar (some should be more than one and a half years) can be treated with local scar creams, compression with elastic sleeve, injection of drugs in the scar and fractional laser, which can alleviate the scar proliferation to the greatest extent. Don’t ask if there is any effect, because there is no way to take you for an experiment, half of the trauma with drugs and half without drugs, to see which side grows high after the proliferation period, no one is happy. The above method has been common for n years and is proven. 2, after the hyperplasia period, the effect of the above methods will plummet (except fractional laser), then you need to use surgery and laser methods to improve, here do not expand. In conclusion, early and correct management will affect the patient or child for life.