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Posted on 2nd Aug 2010 @ 3:39 AM

No matter what kind of burn, it is needed to use the ice for a cold empress.

Emergency measures
1. A flush the wound with tap water
Once the baby was burned, must not directly touch the wound, can not take off his clothes first, wash the wound with water, if the baby is only a small part of the body to be burned, for the baby to wear more clothes and more, and then further water burn Department .
2. To cool the wound
Rubbing the wound can give your baby cold towel, you can wash the wound with a shower head, if the weather is not cold, then you can put in the bath tub full of water, soak the body.
3. Off clothing
When the baby washed with cold water to some extent, you can take off clothes or socks wound, a wound if the clothing sticks, clothes can be wound around the cut, keep the wound clothing.
4. Wound dressing
Finally, sterile gauze covers the wound, then we must pay attention, do not stimulate the affected area, and then wrapped with bandages to help the baby, the process of gauze bandaging must not be too tight. After more than a simple deal done, we must take the baby to the hospital, particularly serious, they must immediately call an ambulance.
Wrong way:
Some private practices will harm the baby, for example, with aloe vera, ointment, toothpaste, soy sauce, bean paste and other coating to the affected area to ease the pain, it is absolutely not desirable, because it may lead to bacterial infections to further deterioration of the baby's symptoms, and delay recovery.
Sent to the hospital handled the situation:
1. Face or lower body burns
When the face or lower body burns, even if the burn does not seem serious, but also very careful handling. When the blisters on an area of more than 1 per coin is large, we must take the baby to the hospital.
2. Large-scale burn
If your baby is younger, 10% of burns can be life threatening, the need to immediately call an ambulance. 1% of body area, roughly equivalent to the size of the palm with one hand outstretched.
3. More serious burns
Baby more vulnerable to bacterial infections, more serious if the degree of burn, need to take your baby to the hospital in time.
4. Clothes do not get stuck in the office burns down
When the burn site of adhesion have clothes, this time must not force their clothes torn from the wound, you can burn around the first cut off the clothes, leaving the stuck part of the clothing burned and then burn the part of the coverage on a clean cloth immediately led the baby to the hospital's surgery or dermatology visits.
Prevention of common sense
Drinking fountains to be placed in the right position, always told kids in the next, when drinking water must be careful not scalded by hot water.
Babies at dinner time to time to remind them not to frolic, food arrangements for a fixed time for the baby seat, some hot things not to rush to eat, such as porridge, soup.
Baby's skin is very tender, very vulnerable to bacterial infection, even if we touch felt that it was careless of temperature will cause burns to the baby, so special attention must be parents.
Tips
Whatever manner, once the baby feel cold, then we would stop him flush. Because the cold water as hot and can prevent the destruction of cells and contraction of blood vessels, easing pain.