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How do I eliminate leg fatigue while snowboarding(Leg Burn?

Advice for treating a burn on leg?

  • Like the clutz I am I managed to burn my leg - a thermal burn a little above my knee. I think it's a second-degree burn because it's white streaks with red skin surrounding it and it blistered within about an hour. It's roughly 2.5 centimetres thick and 6.5 centimetres long. However it isn't one burn but a cluster of lines that have bubbled up together. Anyway I'm not sure what I should do because I can't imagine I'll be able to wear jeans over the blisters. Would it be okay to drain them and then cover the wound with a dressing? What's the best way to deal with burns? :S Thanks ^_^

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    DO NOT DRAIN the blister, leave it alone but cover it with a dry dressing to protect it from rubbing on your clothes. You don't want to use anything fuzzy, tape clingfilm over it if you haven't got anything else. The closed skin will keep infection out, the fluid in the blister will reabsorb and healing will be much faster. What you should have done as soon as you'd burned yourself was to apply COLD to the burn, either by running cold water over it for at least 10 minutes or butting an ice pack on it for the same time - bags of frozen food do just as well as ice. If you had done that then you might not have had any blistering at all. This advice is good for most kinds of burns- except chemical ones.

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that had to hurt second degree can be serious. google burn treatment and see what they recommend. I would not drain, but I would use an antispetic and sterile dressing over them and very baggy clothes.

roughedges

Clean with cold clean water and wrap in cling film; cut off the oxygen getting to the damaged skin. Then ask for your doctors next steps.

Go to the doctor u idiot. U don't want it to get infected

David

Ice, aloe, avoid oils on it. Oil free lotion infused with aloe is perfect. Clean it gently. When it heals a bit you should clean it gently with bar soup or something. Don't wear jeans, I wear jeans over a sunburn and that hurts enough. Let it air out too so wear like gym shorts because you want to protect it without it touching it. You just don't want someone to have their jeans come past you in a crowded area and THAT will be painful Also, pour room temp water on it often. It will probably scar, and when it COMPLETELY heals, that's when you put oil or cocoa butter on it to try to get the scar away.

Sarah

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