First aid after summer burns

  With the advent of summer, burns are the most common trauma in daily life and work. Correct first aid treatment is one of the key factors to reduce the sequelae of burns, especially correct fire escape and self-rescue measures are of great significance to reduce the occurrence of serious, mega and mass casualty fires as well as to reduce secondary burn injuries.  The principle of first aid for burns is to get the patient out of the fire scene quickly.  To remove the injury-causing factors, reduce the secondary damage, on-site first aid, serious patients to do before the transfer of first aid and preparatory work. Burn trauma does not require special treatment, use clean gauze or towel to wrap it externally, then send it to a burn specialist hospital for consultation. Avoid applying colored drugs, such as red mercury and gentian violet, to avoid affecting the judgment of the depth of the trauma, and avoid using toothpaste, soy sauce, earthenware and ointment to avoid difficulties in clearing the trauma, aggravating the pain of the trauma, and not conducive to heat emission.  After boiling water, hot liquid burns, should immediately take off the wet clothes.  If it is too late to take off the clothes, you can directly use cold water to rinse and cool down to reduce the residual heat on the clothes to deepen the trauma and deepen the trauma, so try to take off the clothes, which is beneficial to the heat dispersion. Cold therapy is the most important measure for the early treatment of scalded patients, with cold water to the trauma shower, cold compress, soak, or cold compress with a towel wrapped in ice, simple and easy, especially for small and medium-sized burns, the earlier the cold therapy starts the better, the appropriate temperature to the patient can tolerate the premise of as low as possible, with 5-10 degrees of tap water is most convenient commonly used, cold therapy duration is best to reach 20-30 minutes, sometimes 1 hour or so, until the patient can tolerate. The duration of cold therapy should be 20-30 minutes, sometimes 1 hour or so, until the trauma does not feel pain or pain is significantly reduced, it can play a cooling, pain relief and reduce the effect of swelling of the trauma.  If you encounter chemical burns, you should immediately flush the wound with plenty of water and immediately transfer it to the hospital, while clarifying the chemical composition and concentration and understanding the toxicity to guide the doctor’s treatment.