What to do if your hand is burned by fire

Depending on the severity of the patient’s hand burned by fire, different treatment methods can be taken. First, if the patient’s hands were burned by fire to a lesser degree, only accompanied by the formation of local tension blisters. At this time, the patient needs to continue to rinse under cold water for 15-20 minutes, localized thorough cooling, given moist burn cream local topical application, oral amoxicillin and other anti-inflammatory drugs to prevent local infection. Most patients in 5-7 days after the hand burns can be self-healing, will not cause serious infection. Second, if the patient’s hand burns are more serious, accompanied by local tissue necrosis and obvious swelling and subcutaneous effusion, this time the patient needs to be under local anesthesia as soon as possible to perform subcutaneous drainage of effusion, remove necrotic tissue. At the same time to give the local external application of moist burn cream, growth factors and other drugs, strengthen the wound dressing, intravenous application of antibiotics to avoid local infection, and promote the faster growth of traumatic granulation tissue.