First aid for burns

In daily life, almost every person has experienced a burn at some point. It can occur suddenly. For example, you start cooking in the kitchen and next moment you cry loudly wondering how you caught that burning hot pot without even thinking. You can burn anywhere if you are going out of luck. However, mostly these cases occur in homes. When you come in contact with someone hot thing, it burns your skin cells, which result in an injury. Skin damage or burns depend on the intensity of hotness. You must have held the burnt area under tap water and probably covered it with an ointment. You think, is it the right way to manage burn injuries? The answer is ‘No’. The seriousness of your injury can identify by examining who many skin tissues have been burned.

Types or level of burning:
Expert divide burns injuries in four levels or degree. Your skin changes into Red color and feels pain in first-degree burns. By pressing on it, skin changes into white. There is nothing to worry because these types of burns heal within a week. Second-degree burns are dangerous than first-degree, have blisters and painful. Skin catch swells and turned into red. In third-degree burns are not painful because the nerves in the skin are damaged. Skin color changes into white or charred. In a 4th degree burn, the heat wounds broader formations of the skin and reaches the muscles or even joints and bones.

First aid:
If you do not see a doctor at that time then what is necessary things, which you do quickly for saving an injured person.
• If you have the injury of first-degree burns then you can cool it by dipping in water for 10-15 minutes. Please, do not use ice in burns injuries because due to sudden cooling effect, it can be dangerous for you.
• If you come in contact with second-degree burns, that makes blisters dipped into water for 10 to 15 minutes. After this, dry wound smoothly. Do not rub quickly, it can break tissue.
• If you found some type of blister, then you should need a simple dressing. Use some medicine like paraffin then uses a bandage. Do not cover blister directly with cotton.
• For first aid, you need to cool down your wounds, don’t use medicine or cream etc, without cooling down.
For others burns like 3rd or 4th degree, see a doctor quickly.