Early treatment of burns

  Burns are very common in daily life. Patients seen in the clinic often have contaminated or even deepened wounds due to improper treatment. Below I describe the early management of burns. General burns can be treated first with cold therapy. The specific approach is to flush the injury with a large amount of water.  The principles of rinsing are: 1, immediately after the injury, the earlier the better.  2, the cleaner the water the better, tap water can be, saline better.  3, the temperature should be appropriate, summer and autumn with room temperature water can be, winter water temperature of about 10 degrees.  4, time to enough, generally more than half an hour, to the injury from the water does not hurt shall prevail. The benefits of timely cold therapy are: (1) to reduce pain.  (2) take away the residual heat to prevent further injury.  (3) reduce local exudation and prevent blisters from becoming too large.  If there are no blisters or only a single blister of not more than 1 cm in diameter after cold therapy, the injury should be protected, topical scald creams (such as Kyowa Red) should be applied, and the injury should be kept elevated to avoid sagging. The injury will heal in about 2 weeks and will not leave a visible scar. If there is a visible blister or blister rupture to form a trauma or if the injury becomes white and hard, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital burn orthopedic department immediately. Do not apply any colored substances (e.g. toothpaste, soy sauce) before the consultation, use colorless and low irritation disinfectant solution (e.g. 0.1% Neosporin) to disinfect the wound, clean cotton sterile gauze is better) to protect the wound.