How to treat accidental burns in babies?

Since the beginning of summer, as the temperature continues to rise, people wear less clothes, skin exposed, is the high incidence of burns season. Especially children aged 2 to 4 years old, these children can just walk, self-protection ability is very poor, the adults of the imitation is very strong, curiosity is also very strong, if the parents a little negligence, very easy to danger. since May, the department of burns every day on average, half of which are children, most of which are boiling water or hot soup burns. Children of this age group should be given special care and kept away from all kinds of dangerous goods, such as gas, hot water bottles and rice pans. When bathing children, parents should always run cool water first, then heat the water and wait for the water to be at the right temperature before bathing the child. Most of the children’s burns occur in the family, many parents do not know how to do early family first aid, a look at the child burns, then scared blind. In fact, the early treatment of burns is very simple and also very effective. First of all, keep calm, parents do not mess up. Immediately after the burn, blisters and obviously feel the pain, belonging to the shallow, you can immediately take cold water or ice water to soak or rinse the wound for 30 minutes to an hour, feel not very painful, take off the clothes slowly, use a clean cloth to cover the wound, bandage, and then sent to the hospital. Early treatment with cold water is of great benefit to the healing of the wound, i.e., it reduces pain and deep tissue damage caused by edema and residual heat. Initial burns can cause vascular changes, so much plasma-like material will flow out of the blood vessels, after cold water treatment, edema is reduced, and oozing is reduced. It can also reduce some toxic substances attached to the wound surface, and the secondary damage to the wound surface is also reduced. So early and timely correct treatment, the patient healing faster, the later scar is also lighter. Some burns are small in size and shallow in depth, after cold water soaking and rinsing, applying some drugs to prevent infection and promote wound healing, the wound will improve and heal on its own in a few days, even without leaving a scar. Of course, if the burn area is large, the degree is deeper, with cold water treatment may aggravate the systemic reaction, should be immediately sent to the hospital rescue. If the burn site in the face, head and neck, perineum, etc., due to the special location, even if the injury area is not large, there may be complications, then, in addition to emergency treatment with cold water, in order to prevent shock, you can give the patient to drink some light saline, to replenish the blood volume, reduce the degree of shock. Special emphasis, burns, do not give the wound coated with soy sauce, vinegar, alkali, toothpaste or purple ointment and so on, so that not only can not alleviate the injury, but also will continue to stimulate the wound, deepen the degree of injury, increase the chances of infection, to the hospital, but also to the doctor’s diagnosis and treatment of the difficulties caused by the concealment of the condition, in the rinsing of these coated material will also aggravate the patient’s pain.