Third-degree burns with large wounds without skin grafting may lead to consequences such as non-healing wounds, triggering infections, and formation of scars.
1. Wounds do not heal: third-degree burns are injuries below the full thickness of the skin, and if the diameter of the burned area is more than 3 centimeters, the wound will not heal on its own without a skin graft.
2. Infection: third-degree burns can cause damage to the whole skin, because there is a large amount of degeneration and necrosis of the burn wound, the formation of granulation wounds, exudate, coupled with the damage to the skin’s defense barriers, leading to infection of the scalded area, affecting the recovery of scalded areas.
3. Formation of scars: third-degree burns is a full layer of skin below the injury, if not skin grafting around no normal skin, it is difficult to achieve the effect of self-recovery. The diameter of the wound is less than 3 cm, although you can rely on the edge of the wound skin tissue gradually grow inward, can heal the wound, but will cause the scar obvious hyperplasia, joints of the place of the later scar contracture, and will even affect the joint activities.
Therefore, the third degree burn wound should be recommended to follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment, to avoid delaying the condition, resulting in other damage.