How to treat burns in children

How to treat burns in children?

After the skin is burned, there will be obvious pain and swelling in the area. If the burn is severe, there will also be symptoms such as peeling, blistering, and ulcers, which are extremely harmful to skin health. Once a burn occurs, you must take timely measures to avoid greater damage.

1. Take off your clothes in time

After a child is scalded, parents should take off their clothes in time, because clothes absorb heat. If you do not take off clothes, it is easy to expand the scope of skin burns and cause secondary injuries. If the clothes are stuck to the skin or are inconvenient to take off, you can cut them off directly with scissors. Do not take them off forcibly to avoid tearing the skin and aggravating the injury. In addition, you must be gentle when taking off clothes. If there are blisters locally, do not break the blisters to avoid infection and affect later treatment.

2. Soak in cold water

After taking off your clothes, you can turn on the tap and rinse your skin with cold water, or put some cold water in a basin and soak the scalded area for about 10 minutes, which will help to cool down the area and relieve the burning sensation and pain. Note that the water flow should not be too large when rinsing with the tap, so as not to damage the skin, cause infection, and cause more serious damage. In addition, after rinsing with cold water, you can continue to wrap ice cubes in a towel and apply ice to the area for 10 minutes, which will have a better relief effect.

3. Apply burn ointment

After rinsing with cold water, if the burn area is not very serious, you can use iodine to disinfect it locally, then apply some burn ointment locally according to the doctor's advice, bandage the wound with gauze, and avoid children touching the wound, or causing skin friction, which will affect the recovery of the disease. If the burn is very serious, it is recommended not to treat it at home after washing, but to go to a nearby hospital in time and let the doctor help to deal with it, so as to avoid improper treatment, which will bring greater difficulties to future treatment.