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Why Does Skin Turn White When it Gets Burned?

Burning causes damage to various layers of your skin, depending on the severity of the burn. Whiteness at the burn site may indicate a severe burn that requires medical treatment.

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How to Heal a Burn From a Welding Torch

Burns from a welding torch are painful and treatment should begin immediately to stop the burn and start the healing process. Here are some steps to follow in case of a burn from a welding torch.

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Uses for Silver Sulfadiazine Cream

Use of Silver Sulfadiazine Cream may be the difference between a burn that heals perfectly and one that gets severely infected. This cream is used in most second- and third-degree burn cases. Because...

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What Are the White Spots on Sunburned Skin?

White spots within a sunburn are commonly due to a yeast named tinea versicolor. The yeast lives in the pores of the skin.

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How to Cut Gel Caps

Gel caps are most commonly taken orally and the capsule dissolves in the stomach, eventually releasing the medication within. But sometimes you need to use the medication within the capsule to treat an...

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What is the Purpose of Compression Bandages on Burn Victims

Serious burns, such as third-degree burns, require special treatment at a hospital to minimize the risk of infection and to protect the patient from other potentially lethal complications. Compression...

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Muriatic Acid Burn Injury Treatment

Muriatic acid is another name for hydrochloric acid, which is a highly corrosive, poisonous liquid produced when hydrochloride, a gas, is mixed with water. It’s used in various manufacturing processes...

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Home Remedy for Hot Wax Burn

Hot wax has long been a favorite method of hair removal. While this procedure was once left to the cosmetology professionals, it is now performed regularly in many homes. Unfortunately, if the wax is...

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Home Remedy for an Ice Pack Burn on the Skin

When people speak of burns, they are generally talking about skin that has been damaged through exposure to heat. However, the term “burn” can also be applied to damage caused by cold, such as “freezer...

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How to Treat Bad Skin Burns

Burns are very painful, but they respond well to first aid treatments you can do at home. The first step is to determine what type of burn you have. A first-degree burn is red with some pain and...

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How to Treat a Floor Burn

Floor or rug burns can be painful but rarely are problematic. Frequently caused by slips, slides and falls, they occur most often with children. Floor burns can cover a relatively large area of the...

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What Are the Treatments for Burning Skin Sensation?

Burning skin sensations can be caused by a variety of factors, including anxiety and allergies, and can occur on nearly any area of the body, including the mouth, legs and chest. Symptoms of burning...

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Types of Dressings for Burn Wounds

Assessing the depth of a burn usually requires the skill of a doctor or nurse. Dead skin covering a burn often disguises its depth. Bacteria also grow in dead skin, which antibiotics cannot reach and...

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How to Treat Chemical Burns From Chlorine in Pools

Chlorine is a caustic compound that is commonly used to manage the PH levels in swimming pools and water systems. While the chemical is safe when used properly, accidents can occur which make it a...

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How to Treat a Lip Burn From a Hot Pepper

The capsaicin from chili peppers can help alleviate your migraine headache, relive sinus congestion, fight prostate cancer, burn fat and lower blood pressure, according to studies compiled by the...

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How to Treat a Mild Burn

Burns are one of the most common household injuries. Severe burns should be treated by a doctor, but mild burns can be treated at home.

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How to Administer First Aid Treatment for a Steam Burn

Steam is silent but dangerous. If you are preparing comfort food, such as macaroni and cheese, steam from your pot can make you uncomfortable in a hurry. You need to know basic first aid that will help...

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How to Treat a Flesh Wound

A flesh wound damages the skin, but does not harm the the bone or organs underneath. If you have suffered a flesh wound, proper treatment is the most vital step to a speedy and effective recovery. By...

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Home Treatment for Face Welding Burns

Welding is a process that uses an electric arc to melt and join metal. This electric arc creates ultraviolet radiation (UV) at high levels that can result in severe burns, many times without warning....

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Dry Ice Burn Treatment

Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide. If you don't take the necessary handling precautions with dry ice, it can cause burns similar to frostbite. Though coming into brief contact with dry ice...

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How to Treat a Chemical Burn from Hair Dye Toner

Dyeing your hair involves using many chemicals, most of which are very bad for your skin. Applied improperly, hair dye toner can cause burns that damage many layers of your skin, resulting in pain,...

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How do I Fade Scars From Chemical Burns?

Strong chemicals can cause burns on your skin that are similar to thermal burns. The chemicals can severely damage your skin, and healing takes time. Even after bandages are removed and any scabbing...

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How to Treat Muffler Burns

A hot muffler pipe from a motorcycle or other vehicle can burn skin. Burns are rated first degree, second degree or third degree depending on the level of tissue damage. Home treatment is often...

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How to Treat a Skin Burn From Cooking Oil

Skin burns are not uncommon, and many burns that occur at home begin in the kitchen. Hot cooking oil burns need to be treated differently than burns caused by electricity or chemicals.

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How to Relieve a Burn from Hydroquinone

Hydroquinone is a chemical commonly used in skin-lightening creams and treatments. It is no longer available over the counter in the U.S. in concentrations above 2 percent, because tests have shown it...

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How Long Does It Take to Heal a Second Degree Burn?

Second degree burns may take up to three weeks to heal depending on the location, size and depth. Proper care can shorten the time it takes to heal these burns, while infection can lengthen healing time.

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How to Treat a Propane Burn

If you've ever used a barbecue grill, you are probably somewhat familiar with propane, a heavy flammable gaseous alkane found in natural gas and crude petroleum. It is used in clothes dryers, water...

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How to Treat an Oven Burn

Burning yourself on an oven is a surprising and upsetting event. Your skin may be sore, swollen, red or tender to the touch. In some cases, blisters can form at the burn site. Treatment of oven burns...

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What Is Santyl Ointment?

Santyl is the brand name for collagenase ointment. This prescription medication is used to help the healing of skin ulcers and burns. Collagenase is an enzyme that works by breaking up and removing...

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How to Treat an Open Blister From a Burn

Blisters are small pouches of skin filled with fluid that can cause extreme pain. Friction or burns usually cause them. Tender bubbles form on the skin's surface and fill with fluid; eventually, the...

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How to Treat a Freeze Burn

Freeze burn, cold burn or frostbite occurs when the body is exposed to cold temperatures for enough time to cause damage. In sufficiently cold temperatures, the body transfers heat from the skin to the...

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How to Treat a Burn Bubble

A burn bubble, also known as a blister, most commonly appears with a second degree burn. A burn bubble is a raised pouch on top of the skin that is filled with fluid, usually clear in color. Burn...

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What Is the Difference Between a 2nd & 3rd Degree Burn?

Burns are some of the most common skin injuries. Burns can result from fire, working with chemicals or electrical materials, or by spending too much time in the sun, among other reasons. There are...

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How to Identify a Second-Degree Burn and How to Treat It

Skin burns are classified as either first-, second- and third-degree, depending on their severity. Of these classifications, first-degree is the least serious, while third-degree burns require...

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How to Treat a Burnt Lip From Waxing

When waxing your eyebrows or upper lip, ensure the wax is cool enough before application; wax that is too hot will drip and burn the skin or lips. Wax is an effective way of removing unwanted facial...

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Wild Parsnip Cures

Wild Parsnips are an alien invasive species, carried to America from Europe and Asia and spreading across much of the northern United States and parts of Canada. While the roots of wild parsnips are...

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How to Treat Second Degree Burns

It's not uncommon for people to be burned mildly here and there throughout life. However, second degree burns are much more serious and must be treated immediately.

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How to Treat Cigarette Burns

A cigarette burn is no laughing matter, especially when the tingling pain remains long after the initial shock of the burn subsides. The high heat from the cigarette's lit end, burns your skin's...

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How to Treat a Really Bad Rope Burn

Rope burn is caused when rope runs across your skin quickly, resulting in redness, blisters and in some cases bleeding. You can get rope burn from any activity involving the use of rope, such as rock...

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How to Treat Frost Burn

Your skin is susceptible to freezing when left uncovered during cold weather, and temporarily freezes if exposed for a prolonged period of extreme conditions. Commonly known as frostbite, the skin is...

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How to Soothe a Steam Burn

Steam burns, like all other burns, range in severity. Severe steam burns require the attention of a doctor to prevent infection and prescribe the necessary medication to make a full recovery....

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Jalapeno Burn Cures

The Jalapeño is a medium-sized chili pepper cultivated in Mexico and parts of Central America. It is enjoyed for its flavor and spiciness and used in many dishes and recipes. Jalapeños are known to...

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What Are the Treatments for a Burnt Scalp?

Scalp burns from chemical relaxers and hair dyes can occur from home jobs or from a stylist not paying close enough attention. The resulting burns can be agonizing, but many may unwittingly further...

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How to Treat a Surface Burn

Surface burns can also be termed first-degree burns or minor burns. Surface burns may occur as the result of sunburn, touching a hot pot or pan, or while using a curling iron or flat iron. These types...

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How to Treat Sunburn Blisters

While many people don't perceive them as so, sunburns are just as serious as any other kind of burn; a sunburn cure, like a cure for other burns, does not exist. The proof of this fact can be found in...

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How to Reduce Burns After Silver Nitrate

There are many ways in which you can get burned such as by over exposure to heat, fire, boiling water and even when the skin comes in contact with harsh chemicals. Burns have three classifications:...

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How to Soak a Burn With Epsom Salts

Epsom salts, technically known as magnesium sulfate, are traditionally used for soaking tired feet in a bucket of warm water. Because Epsom salts have anti-inflammatory properties, they can be soothing...

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Face Burn Treatment

Burns to the face are similar in many ways to burns to other parts of the body. They also pose some special situations and have an increased possibility of complications. This is due to the increased...

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How to Cure a Burnt Tongue

Your tongue can easily be burnt by eating or drinking something that is too hot. This can cause extremely painful blisters. Tongues injured from burning and other causes are medically known as...

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How to Cure Burnt Taste Buds

The medical community regards honey, milk and salt as acceptable agents for the treatment of some diseases and infections resulting from wounds and burns, according to Ali A. Al-Jabri, author of...

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