What to do when asphalt hurts your skin

Injury to the skin from asphalt generally requires treatment such as cooling, debridement and medication according to the degree of skin damage. Asphalt and its fumes are irritating to the skin and mucous membranes, phototoxic and tumorigenic, so the injured skin should do the following treatment in time: 1. Cooling: asphalt needs to be dissolved at high temperature, so the injury is generally high temperature burns. The scalded parts can be placed under the flow of clean cold water for rinsing, or directly immersed in cold water. Timely cooling of the skin, to prevent heat residue invasion of deep tissue aggravate the injury. 2. Cleansing: conditions allow the use of gasoline to dissolve the asphalt to remove. If the asphalt falls and causes the skin to break, it is necessary to protect the wound in time. You can use iodophor to disinfect the wound, and then apply sterile gauze to prevent pathogenic bacteria from entering the body and causing infection. 3. medication: asphalt burns will appear in different degrees of damage, for mild burns, generally redness, swelling, etc., can be used locally as prescribed by the doctor, such as moist burn cream, to help the local skin recovery. If the skin is seriously damaged also need to cooperate with the use of silver sulfadiazine cream, erythromycin ointment and other drugs for anti-inflammatory treatment to prevent local infection. Being burned by asphalt should promptly clean up the skin residual asphalt, protect the injured part of the timely medical treatment, to prevent the heat residue caused further damage, triggering the body infection.