How to deal with infant burns

  In life if a baby is once scalded, we must take emergency treatment. Parents must not panic, must be calm, can not be applied to the wound soy sauce, vinegar, wine, toothpaste, etc., because the application of these may cause infection, affecting the doctor’s judgment of the severity of the burns, minor burns is a little burn moist cream can be applied.  Once the baby has a burn, parents can take the following methods to deal with: (1) first rinse the wound with flowing water such as tap water for 15-30 minutes, there is no way to rinse the wound, you can local cold compress.  (2) If the baby is wearing clothes, use scissors to cut the clothes, temporarily retain the adhesion, try to avoid breaking the blisters, mainly to prevent secondary infection, affect the healing of the wound, to avoid the formation of scarring, and then carefully remove the clothes.  (3) Invade in cold water for 15~30 minutes, if the burn area is too large or the baby is young, then there is no need for such treatment.  (4) You can cover the injured area with sterile petroleum jelly gauze or a clean wet cloth. Finally, you should hurry to take your child to the hospital for emergency treatment.  In summary, once a baby has a burn, flowing tap water rinses for 15-30 minutes, this is the most important so as to minimize the pain of the burn reduce the temperature of the skin and reduce further damage. When the infant burns reach more than two degrees deep, then it is necessary to be hospitalized, and for particularly large area burns, if necessary, skin grafting treatment.