I am a sophomore, I think I have a lot of life experience, but the life of the university is really not very peaceful, falling down from the top bunk is already pediatrics, resistant to beating and falling, I lost in a small burn.
As soon as the hot water spilled, my feet became pig's trotters
Our dormitory building is equipped with a water dispenser, and usually I receive water directly on the water dispenser. On that whim, I went to the boiling water room with the water bottle, and I won the lottery and the water bottle exploded.
I finished the water, I was carrying the water bottle, and before I could go out, I felt a light hand, followed by the sound of the water bottle falling on the ground, and it exploded at my feet. The right foot was first numb, then the burning sensation of the temperature seeping into the instep of the foot, and finally there was no feeling except for the wetness, and it didn't hurt anyway. I was confused, standing there felt very humiliating, a little brother took a broom to try to sweep the debris for me, I took it and swept it myself, and then rushed back to the dormitory.
After taking a few steps, I felt the discomfort of the socks and skin rubbing, and I forced myself to go back to the dormitory, take off my shoes and socks at the first time, put my feet in the tap water pool and start to flush. It was the end of December, the water was so cold, I felt my feet were freezing, and I washed it for about twenty minutes. At that time, the skin and flesh had been somewhat separated, and the burned feet were miserable and white, and there was a texture of pig's trotters that had been blanched in boiling water. My roommate found me a scald ointment. After about an hour, it began to bubble, starting with only a few small bubbles, then gradually growing and finally combining into one large bubble. At that time, it was late, and I thought about going to the school hospital the next day to deal with it.
After being burned, my feet are like pig's trotters 丨 figure worm ideas
The next day when I woke up, I went to see my feet for the first time, good guys, the blisters not only did not have a tendency to shrink, but gradually expanded, and the instep of the foot could not be bent. In the cold winter, I can't go to the hospital barefoot, so I took a photo and asked my roommate to run. The school hospital was very user-friendly, and a doctor's aunt provided a door-to-door service. I was pressed to a chair by my roommate, blindfolded, and the doctor quickly punctured the blisters with a syringe, then washed the wound with hydrogen peroxide, and finally applied ointment and wrapped in gauze. Before leaving, he told me that the first two days were the exudation period, and asked me to go to the school hospital every other day to change the medicine.
Fortunately, it was almost the end of the semester at that time, and there were not many classes, so I took a leave of absence, prepared to raise well, and could take the exam. What follows is the long process of changing the dressing, and each change of the dressing has to be registered and paid, so the bills have been saved a lot. The doctors who change the dressing are not all the same person, and the results of each diagnosis are different. A doctor told me that I did not need to avoid the mouth, the wound was not infected, and the recovery was good, but another doctor said that I still had exudate on the fifth day, I needed to avoid the mouth, and I also prescribed levofloxacin hydrochloride capsules, so every time I changed the dressing, I was worried.
I changed the medicine about eight times in the school hospital, and after a month of recovery, the wound still did not grow well, and each change of medicine was a slimy state mixed with the exudate and ointment of the wound. After a month, the surface of the foot is no longer a pig's trotter, but a layer of pork belly with a mucous membrane. Exam week is over, winter break is coming, and I have to pack my bags and go home. God knows how many people I attracted along the way in my cotton drag, limping my suitcase.
With folk remedies, my feet suffered from the second stubble
When I got home, of course, I still had to go to the hospital to change the medicine. New city, new hospital, new diagnosis, I skillfully explained my situation, the doctor examined the wound, learned that I had been burned for a month, felt that the recovery was too slow, according to the theory of a month can be alive and jumping. She judged that the wound had not been treated at the beginning, so she took the forceps and rinsed the wound again with normal saline. I still remember the scream when she scraped open the mucous membrane, and my heart and lungs were so fierce. After cleaning, she opened the wound dressing that was imported, and for the first time in her life, she saw this magical medicine that covered the wound directly, looking like a large thick band-aid. The doctor prescribed me two more sticks of saline and told me to change the medicine once every five to seven days and to wash the wound with salt water before changing the dressing.
Then the outbreak broke out, the hospital became a dangerous place, I was secretly glad that I had gone to the hospital earlier, the gauze tape was fully prepared, and it was not difficult for me to change the dressing and bandage.
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The dressing effect is very good, it is easy to stick to the wound, it is especially easy to tear off a little meat when changing the dressing, I take a cotton swab dipped in saline every time and peel it off little by little, which is a technical job. When I changed the medicine for the second time, I found that a diced meat had grown in the center of the wound, arching out like a mushroom, and I had never seen this thing, which scared me enough. I remembered that the doctor told me that the wound long granulation means that it is almost good, and then I searched for the picture of "wound long granulation" (for dead behavior, please do not imitate). I've always had a lot of taste, vampires, ogres, etc. are all good dishes, but I was really scared by the pictures that were searched, so disgusting my mom.
Just as I was hesitating, my mother jumped out. As soon as I got home, she told me that a friend of hers had a burn once, and it was fine for a week, and then she told me how. I don't know if I heard her say it too many times, but I was a little shaken. At that time, it had been a month and a half since the burn, and the wound was still shocking, so he held the luck of a dead horse as a live horse doctor and listened to her method.
The wrong demonstration came, grinding the anti-inflammatory medicine into powder and pouring it on the wound, then smearing it with Thai herbal cream and wrapping it in a thin layer of gauze. It hurt, my wound, which was almost dry, had oozing fluid again, the long mushrooms were gone, and I suffered another stubble. After a few days of persistence, I chose to believe in science and returned to the dressing prescribed by the doctor. After another half a month, the wound finally grew well, but the wound that had just grown was red and itchy from time to time, and I seriously suspected that it was because my mother had pit me.
Now the wound is not much of a problem except for some gray scars. Eating a long and wise, killing me did not expect the burns to be so difficult to recover. Since then, I have been in awe of boiling water.
Doctor reviews
Wang Jue | Attending physician of the Department of Burn Plastic Surgery, PLA General Hospital
Burns are a type of trauma that we usually see, and hot or steam burns in daily life and electric shock injuries, explosion injuries or chemical burns at work will cause different degrees of thermal damage to our skin soft tissues. According to incomplete statistics, up to 300,000 people die of burns caused by fires worldwide every year, and if you add different degrees of burns caused by various reasons, the number will be even more shocking.
It is very important to give timely treatment to burns as soon as they occur. Can ordinary people who lack professional knowledge do it themselves before going to the hospital? The answer is yes. Once a burn occurs, it can be treated according to the "pre-hospital five-step method" before seeking medical treatment, that is, "flushing - off - bubble - cover - send". Here's how:
The first step is to rinse with cool water. Quickly find tap water and rinse the injured area for 20 minutes.
The second step is to carefully remove your clothes. After thorough rinsing, slowly remove the clothing from the surface of the injured area, using scissors. Do not tear violently cause the blister skin to burst.
The third step is to soak in cool water. If possible, soak in cool water for 10 to 15 minutes to reduce local pain. Do not take too long to prevent frostbite.
Fourth, cover with clean dressing. Optionally, clean gauze is available, and if there are no conditions, the wound can be covered with clean clothing.
The fifth step is to get to the doctor quickly. Visit the Burn Specialist Hospital or General Hospital's Burn Department in time, and the specialist will diagnose the depth of the burn and treat it.
Contraindications to pre-hospital management of burns:
1. Do not believe in folk remedies. Do not use various cooking spices such as soy sauce, toothpaste, vinegar, and cooking oil to treat burn wounds after injury, because the bacteria inside can easily cause infection on the wounds.
2. Do not tear off the scalded blister skin by yourself. Blister skin has a good protective effect on the wound.
3. Do not change the medicine at home.
Most of the various types of burns encountered daily are not life-threatening, but improper treatment or deep burns will leave scars, and if they occur on the face, they will cause facial damage. Occurs in the motor part of the limb, which can easily lead to scar contracture deformity and affect normal function. In addition, scars are often accompanied by symptoms such as itching and ulceration, none of which affect the patient's normal life.
Under normal circumstances, if the wound can heal within 3 weeks, it is generally not easy to form scars; conversely, if it exceeds 3 weeks, it will often form hypertrophic scars later. Early prevention and treatment of scars is critical, including photoelectric therapy for scars, silicone gels or silicone patches, pressure sleeves, and functional rehabilitation. The latest International Clinical Scar Management Recommendations [1] state that preventing hyperplasia of scars is much more effective than treating hypertrophic scarring. For proliferative scars, the best treatment is to intervene in effective treatment when the scar is formed but not yet mature. The 2017 edition of the "Expert Consensus on the Prevention and Treatment of Clinical Scars in China"[2] pointed out that for proliferative scars, lattice lasers can be selected at both the hyperplasia stage and the mature stage, and the decorganization laser effect is better than that of non-decorbative lasers.
Case 1: Comparison before and after treatment of photoelectric technology scars | Courtesy of the doctor
Case 2: Comparison before and after scar treatment using a combination of multiple methods | Courtesy of the doctor
With the development of scar medicine, surgery has long been not the only way to treat hypertrophic scars, and the comprehensive prevention and treatment of early prevention and treatment combined with photoelectric and other methods has opened up a new world for the development of scar medicine. Finally, I hope that everyone will not be burned by burns, such as accidentally recruited, and seek medical treatment as soon as possible after simple treatment.
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China Clinical Scar Prevention and Treatment Expert Consensus Development Group. Chinese Expert Consensus on Clinical Scar Prevention and Treatment[J].Chinese Journal of Injury and Repair, 2017,12(6):401-406.
Sharing personal experience does not constitute a diagnosis and treatment recommendation, can not replace the doctor's individual judgment of a specific patient, if you need to go to a regular hospital.
Author: Little Half-Silence
Translation: Mu Yi Yang Yang