What to do if the skin falls off after being burned by boiling water

After boiling water scalded skin off, you should remove the scalded area of clothing as soon as possible, cold water rinse, and go to the hospital for local cleaning, disinfection, bandage gauze, etc., with the treatment of anti-infective drugs. If the scalding skin loss is more serious, you can consider skin grafting surgery. If the skin falls off after boiling water scald, the subcutaneous tissue is exposed to the air, which is easy to cause skin infection, you must go to the regular hospital as soon as possible, so that the professional burn surgeon to carry out emergency treatment, including local cleaning, disinfection, etc., covered with gauze to carry out local bandaging, but also with anti-infective medications, such as cefixime or amoxicillin, scald creams, etc., to treat the infection. If the skin falls off after boiling water scald, the trauma is relatively large, the scald is more serious, we should combine with the professional doctor’s opinion of treatment, if necessary, consider doing skin grafting surgery. It should be noted that the skin has fallen off after boiling water scald, must be careful to remove the clothing of the scalded area, so as not to cause secondary trauma, which may lead to scald aggravation or trauma enlargement. After surgery, you should also pay attention to good wound care, timely cleaning, disinfection and dressing change to avoid infection.