A video I watched not long ago showed that Nanjing Children's Hospital treated 29 scalded babies in a month, twice as many as usual. Most of these babies are scalded by hot water. Statistics show that in cities, more than 90% of burns and scalds are caused by boiled water, hot water, hot soup and hydrothermal solution. When summer comes, the baby wears less clothes and has more exposed skin. Coupled with the hot weather, parents should pay more attention to their babies to avoid burns.

Clinically, according to the severity of burns and scalds, there are "three degrees and four points": first degree burns and scalds: epidermal damage, skin redness, unbearable pain, which can be cured in 3-5 days; Second-degree burns and scalds: skin blisters are divided into shallow second degree (superficial dermal injury, pain, local bullae, but the bullae wall is thin, if there is no infection, it can be cured in 7- 1 1 day) and deep second degree (deep dermal injury, mild pain, small bullae, but thick bullae wall, easy to be infected and scarred). Third-degree burns: skin burns, no pain, blisters and feelings at this time. From the above classification, it is not difficult to see that I-degree and shallow II-degree pain are obvious and even there are big blisters, which seem to be less serious, while deep II-degree blisters are less painful, but more serious! For parents who have no first aid experience, the following first aid methods are often used when their children are burned and scalded, but they are all "first aid misunderstandings" and are not desirable!

Misunderstanding of first aid 1, blowing the wound with your mouth seems to cool down or relieve the pain, but it is not appropriate. The blowing wind can't cool down much at all, but it wastes time, and in the process of blowing, it may blow bacteria and dust to the wound surface, increasing the chance of infection. Misunderstanding of first aid II. Listen to folk remedies and discredit things. A Malaysian woman used toothpaste after being burned by oil. The wound is not getting better. On the contrary, the infection gradually worsened, causing the whole hand to be deformed and covered with blisters.

Some parents will listen to all kinds of remedies. Children with burns will use toothpaste, honey, sesame oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, egg white and so on. Especially toothpaste. They think that toothpaste can diminish inflammation, especially mint-flavored toothpaste, which can prevent infection and make children feel more comfortable. But in fact, this practice is not standardized. No matter toothpaste or other things, or mercurochrome, purple syrup, burn ointment, etc. Applying it to the wound first may affect the doctor's judgment of the injury, increase the difficulty of cleaning the wound, affect the heat dissipation, lead to continuous thermal damage to the skin, and more likely to cause infection.