Cold weather heating beware of low-temperature burns

Reporters today from the Zibo City Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Hospital, Zibo City Central Hospital and other hospitals burns learned that the recent low-temperature scald patients increased significantly, nearly twice as much as before, the patients are mainly the elderly, infants and young children, diabetic, paralyzed patients and other insensitive to the heat source of the population. Yesterday morning, Zibo City Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Hospital, Dr. Qu said, low-temperature burns because the heating equipment at the beginning of the base temperature is not particularly high, such as 60 ℃ hot water bag, wrapped in a towel and held on the body or resting on the feet to warm up, there really will not be a moment of ordinary scalded as the burning sensation. Because of this, the body is more difficult to respond in time. But once a location of the body for a long time to accept this kind of higher than the body temperature of the low heat object, up to a certain time may also be scalded, this is the low-temperature burns. “40 ℃ for five or six hours to act on the skin can cause low temperature burns.” The reporter learned from the burns experts, low-temperature burns as “stewed meat”, the surface area looks small, do not feel serious, but in fact almost all deep burns, not only the skin surface layer is seriously damaged, sometimes may be burned to the subcutaneous fat layer or even muscle layer, the area of a slightly larger low-temperature scald often need surgical treatment in order to The first step in the process is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what is going on in your life.