Children’s burns home treatment myths

  Burns are one of the most common accidental injuries to children, and throughout the year, day and night, there are always several parents rushing into the surgical emergency room with their scalded children in their arms, mostly wrapped in blankets or quilts, and the children’s clothes have been taken off, and when the doctors open the blankets or quilts, most of them have bulged large blisters or are missing layers of skin, making the doctors shake their heads, and the anxious parents just keep on The anxious parents would just keep urging the doctor “Be quick, be quick.” But they do not know that they have missed the best time to reduce the child’s injury and improve the prognosis, and even aggravate the child’s condition due to their incorrect treatment.  Most burns in children are boiling water burns, as children are small in stature often knock over or pull over a hot water bottle or cup placed on the table, and the boiling water burns the child from the top down. Most parents will immediately take off the child’s clothes to check the injury, which is desirable, but in the process of taking off the clothes, the first mistake will occur and aggravate the injury, that is, because the parents have been panicked, often is haphazardly pull off the child’s clothes, especially when the arm burns pull off the sleeve, in such treatment due to clothing on The friction of the scalded epidermis often aggravates the damage to the scalded skin, and even pulls the injured epidermis off. The correct treatment is actually very simple, take scissors and cut the sleeve to avoid the friction of the clothing on the injured surface.  Toothpaste is used for brushing teeth, but we often find that those children with burns are coated with a thick layer of toothpaste on their wounds, and whenever parents are asked, they often fumble and say that they were told to do so. Toothpaste is nothing in the eyes of ordinary people, and there are parents who sprinkle salt or other unknown things on their wounds. Ugh! If you don’t know how to do it, don’t do it. Doing it blindly will harm the child. Apply toothpaste is not only no therapeutic effect, may also cause infection, its coagulation adhesion wound will also increase the difficulty of the doctor to deal with the wound. Therefore, do not apply foam toothpaste and other things that have no exact therapeutic effect on the scalded wound, which is another misconception of family treatment of burns.  Is it right to send your child to the hospital immediately when he or she is burned? Not all right, the hospital is to send, but if the area is not a small limb burns can be used clean cold water or ice water soak for half an hour, which can reduce the damage and pain, if it is scalded in other places, can also be used cold towel over the wound, but do not rub the wound. Treating the wound with cold water can neutralize the residual heat in the scalded skin, reducing further thermal damage and allowing the wound to cool down quickly, which is very effective, but many parents ignore this and some have the opposite attitude.  The last misconception is the most dangerous to deal with. A medical case was recently reported in a news perspective program in which a patient with moderate burns died a week after being seen in a private clinic (not licensed to practice medicine). This case can serve as a warning to parents who want to save money, save trouble or blindly listen to advertisements for a cure-all.  Whether the home first aid treatment of children’s burns is timely or not, not only has an important impact on the future treatment, but even on the safety of the child’s life. Here, I would like to call on those young parents to learn more common sense and do more responsibility, so that there will be less pain in the future.