Recently, a message appeared on the Internet: A young man who sprayed lawn pesticides for customers wanted to check the pesticide content in the bucket and see how many pesticides were left in the bucket. He lifted the lid, lit the lighter, and the steam ignited and swallowed him up. He jumped out of the truck and screamed. His neighbor came to his house and shouted, "Bring me some eggs". She broke the egg and separated the yolk from the protein. The neighbor smeared egg white on the young man's face.
The ambulance rushed to the scene, and the ambulance personnel saw the situation of the young people and asked who did it. Everyone pointed out that it was the lady next door. They congratulated him and said, "You saved his face". At the end of summer, young people gave their neighbors a bunch of roses to show their gratitude. His face, like a baby's skin, heals well.
Healing miracle burns: Please remember that this method of treating burns is included in the teaching of firefighters to beginners. First aid for burns includes spraying cold water on the affected area for the first time until the heat decreases, which will stop the continuous burning of all layers of skin. Then, apply egg white to the affected area. ...
This specious news puzzled many people. Zhang Qin, chief physician of the Department of Burn Plastic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, pointed out that there are many folk remedies and earthwork for treating burns, but from the perspective of burn specialists, it is not recommended, including the rumored egg white. Shanghai Emergency Center has never recommended this method.
Why not recommend it? Due to the skin loss of the wound surface after burn, the capillary permeability of the wound surface and around the wound surface is increased due to burn, which leads to the continuous leakage of plasma-like liquid from the wound surface for 72 hours or even longer after burn. At the same time, due to the lack of local anti-infection barrier, the wound is easy to be infected, and even early surgical scarlet fever can be caused by streptococcus infection, which is characterized by high fever and generalized rash.
It is difficult to form a stable protective layer by covering the wound with egg white in the early stage of burn. However, the residual bacteria in and around the wound surface proliferate rapidly on the nutrient-rich bacterial culture medium formed by egg white and pulp seepage from the wound surface, which is easy to cause bacterial infection.
Many people may have questions. After debridement, the hospital will also bandage the wound with ointment and gauze. So why not cover the wound with protein and other nutrients after debridement?
Director Zhang Qin explained that the dressing in the hospital is not to completely seal the wound, but to drain the exudate from the burn wound onto the gauze while keeping the wound relatively covered, instead of simply leaving the liquid on the wound. At the same time, in view of the large exposed area of the wound and the inevitable risk of bacterial invasion, the doctor will cover the wound with an antibacterial cream.
Scientists have also invented such a dressing: the wound exudate is continuously absorbed into the dressing containing antibacterial agents, so as to maintain the beneficial components and warm environment in the wound exudate, promote wound healing, and at the same time keep the wound closed to prevent the invasion of foreign microorganisms.