Lighter burns are usually small and mild, and can be treated by removing the cause, cold therapy, and medication.
1. Remove the cause: first of all, you need to stay away from the source of fire, and pay attention to the source of fire whether there is clothing and other flammable and explosive items around.
2. Cold therapy: timely cold therapy can prevent heat from continuing to act on the wound to make it deepen, and can reduce pain, reduce oozing and edema, the earlier the better. Patients can be burned wounds in the flow of water under the shower or immersion in water (water temperature is generally 15 ~ 20 ℃), or cold water soaked towels, gauze pads, etc. on the trauma, generally until the cold therapy stops no longer have a burning sensation until.
3. medication: after being burned, you can use moist burn cream for local application, if the burn is accompanied by severe local pain, you can take ibuprofen, acetaminophen and other drugs as prescribed by the doctor.
If you have a serious blister after being burned by a lighter, you usually need to disinfect the area and use a sterile syringe to extract the liquid from the blister to promote the recovery of the blister. The above operations should be carried out by a professional doctor to prevent infection caused by self-treatment.