Scalding refers to the damage to skin tissue after the human skin is damaged by high temperature liquids, vapors or solids.
When the skin is burned, people's first reaction is to feel different degrees of pain symptoms, through the degree of scalding can also be divided into one degree, two degrees, three degrees and four degrees, so after being burned, the correct treatment method can be taken to reduce the damage to the body. Next, I will introduce the first time to deal with burns, which is necessary for anyone to understand.
1. Rinse the burned area
When the skin is burned, rinse the burned area in time with clean, running cold water. The reason why it is necessary to rinse the affected area is to cool down the affected area and reduce the damage to the internal tissues of the skin. The time of rinsing is about 15-20 minutes, and it should not be too short or too long.
2. Take off your clothes
If the patient's burned area is covered by clothing or pants, after rinsing the affected area, a way to remove the clothes or pants should be found. It should be noted that the clothes and pants cannot be taken off directly, and it is necessary to first determine whether the patient's wound will stick to the clothes and pants, and if it is not glued to the clothes and pants, it can be gently taken off;
If the patient's wound area has been stuck to the clothes and pants, it is necessary to use disinfectant scissors to cut off the surrounding clothes and pants, and then slowly take off the clothes and pants residue at the wound site. When taking off the residue of clothes and pants, you need to be careful and slow, so as not to tear the wound open.
3. Soak the wound
After rinsing with cold water, the wound is removed, and the third step is to soak the patient's wound. Because a patient's wound may produce a sharp feeling of pain, soaking the wound can help the patient reduce the pain symptoms, and if the wound is soaked with normal saline, it can also prevent wound inflammation.
4. Cover the wound
Because scalded skin is in a state of poor antibacterial ability, it needs to be protected. The simplest thing to do is to use sterile gauze to gently cover the wound, so that the risk of the wound being infected by external bacteria and viruses is reduced.
5. Send to the hospital for treatment
After the above four steps have been completed, it is also necessary to consider whether it is necessary to go to the hospital according to the patient's situation. For example, if only a small blister is burned, there is no need to go to the hospital for treatment, if the pain is more intense or the burn site is more or larger, the patient needs to go to the regular hospital in time.
Through the doctor's professional examination, debridement and medication treatment, to help patients anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, pain relief, the disease can be better recovered.
If the patient's injury is more serious, call 120 before the above 4 first aid measures, ask the hospital to send a doctor to come to the rescue in time, and help the patient to carry out wound treatment operations while waiting for rescue, helping the patient to reduce pain.
Scald people in the first time through the above 5 methods to deal with, we can weave it into a recipe, called "flush, take off, bubble, cover, send", as long as you remember this "5 words of tips", after the occurrence of scalds can be treated in time, to help patients reduce the damage to the skin.
Patients are reminded that even if the wound is treated, it is necessary to pay attention to regular disinfection in the later stage to protect the wound from bacterial or viral infection, so as not to cause inflammation, suppuration, and cause the wound to not heal for a long time.