After a child is scalded by hot water, he or she should be given plenty of cold water to rinse, take off the clothes at the injured area and clean clothes to cover the wound, etc. He or she should also consult a doctor in time, who will give him or her treatments according to the degree of the scald, including general treatments, medications and surgical treatments.
1. General treatment: After the child is scalded by hot water, if it only shows local redness and pain, the local skin should be rinsed with cold water to reduce the temperature and relieve the pain, and the wound should be sterilized by the doctor.
2. medication: patients with more obvious pain, need to use ibuprofen and other drugs to give pain relief treatment. If the burn is more serious, blisters and infections appear, the doctor needs to use a sterile syringe to puncture the blisters and use sterilized cotton swabs to locally sterilize and bandage the wound. For the accompanying local infection, need to follow the doctor’s instructions to use amoxicillin and other antibiotic treatment.
3. Surgical treatment: for scalded deeper wounds, and leave scars of patients, can be in the scalded symptoms eliminated, according to the condition of the choice of appropriate surgical treatment, such as scab treatment, skin grafting and so on.
After the hot water scalded children, parents should pay attention, timely take the child to the hospital burns department, actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment, so as to avoid localized burns caused by infection, aggravate the condition.