When you talk about Burns, you can quickly have a fire in your head with great flames and terrible consequences, but it can also be small wounds from the everyday life caused by a stupid domestic accident. Who has never made a blunder and been burned by a contact with the oven plate by leaving the gratin of the MIDI for example? These wounds are shallow and extended, but they really hurt and all we want is to calm these acute sensations. And in these cases, the net is teeming with more or less good ideas to help you. We are the first to defend the little simple and cheap tricks, but some erroneous myths can nonetheless aggravate the situation and we can not let it pass… hence this article!
Remember that even if it is small, you should never take a burn lightly and avoid to banter with your health.
1 ) Toothpaste
Fluoride or mint toothpaste is a very popular remedy because it brings a fresh sensation, promotes scarring and contains anti-inflammatory menthol. We know what you may have thought when you saw the title and this trick evoked: “I already did and it worked!” … and you will have a lot of luck! But if it works in some, know that it is at your peril and that it can increase the burn by keeping the heat within the wound. Toothpaste increases inflammation in the wound and can give children convulsions. These are a lot of risks for uncertain chances of success. Health is too precious to do anything!
2) Egg white
You may have already read the story a little ridiculous from the neighbor who would have saved the burned face of her neighbor by applying white of egg and who likes to evoke the paramedic who congratulates her and her neighbor who thanks her then with a baby skin as if Rie N had happened. This belief about the hard-toothed egg, because people quickly spread false truths on the net. Those who defend this method often give two arguments: the richness of the egg in collagen and its resemblance to the placenta… two ideas received completely wrong! For information, the egg contains only water and an albumin (ovalbumin).
In addition, it forms a layer above the burn that captures the heat and keeps it concentrated in the wound. We should also briefly mention that the raw egg is a disaster on this open wound and that it can give infections.
3) butter, cold-cream or oil
Applying it would help the skin to regenerate, as it loses its greasy surface molecules when it is burned. However, applying fat on a burn only aggravates the cooking phenomenon (after all, do we not put oil in the dishes to cook better?). Unless you are a French fries, avoid to be smeared! In addition, this does not help to reduce the local heat since this oily layer will keep the heat in the burn and maintain it. In short, this is typically all that is not desirable on this type of injury! It can increase the risk of infection.
One more thing?
Also avoid the eosin or any coloring substance that does not allow to monitor the evolution of the redness as well as the alcohol that will further damage your cells well miscarried and hurt you for no reason.
The best cure for a burn: water, water and still water!
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