How do you heal a salt ice burn?

Salt and Ice burn! Please help me!?

  • So i've been kinda depressed for a few years ago... Last year it got really bad. I started to cut myself. And think of death. Well this year I've heard about ice and salt burns and how they hurt like HELL but the scars go away faster than cuts (my parents know nothing of me doing these things) My first try was okay. It wilted but that was all and it left a few days later My second time (would have been tuesday 21 2012) i did it in three places on my arm. One by my wrist and the other ones all 1 1/2 inches from each other give or take a few inches. I kept the ice and sat on and reapplied it everytime the pain would go away. I did this til three pieces of ice (for each area) would melt. The burns went bright red and KILLED! the next few days they started to blister. My friend told me to get rid of the blisters take a CLEAN needle and pop them. So i did, alot of pus drianed out of the blisters on each burn. I bandaged them after washing them out. Later the bandages got ripped off. on the first and second ones it just tore a little skin. But the one closest to my wrist got ALOT of skin ripped off about the size of a quater. The underneath layer of skin is showing and pus still comes to the the top of it. The skin underneath is a dark red and has a light purple look to it The areas still hurt but the one closer to the wrist hurts more. I have placed bigger bandages that do not touch the burns and new skin at all but they still hurt and are scarng me. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

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    This is classed as a chemical burn. It WILL scar and popping the blisters was the worst thing you could do as you have introduced infection. It needs to be washed in sterile saline than bandaged with a sterile, non stick dressing to have any chance of healing cleanly. You need to talk to SOMEONE. If you won't talk to your parents, try a school nurse or councellor.

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You NEED to get off of the computer and get to the hospital before you get infected and loose feeling in your arm.

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what you really should do is STOP DOING THIS! why are you doing that to your body?! that sounds terrible. I was depressed at one point too..and i also cut at one point..but then m best friend saw the cuts and cried and after that i just couldnt do it anymore. I started taking my feelings out into sports and activities. You should do the same. Or atleast see a therapist. This is never gonna go away until you handle it like an adult, figuring out ways to cut hurt your body isnt gonna make the depression stop in the long run..which is wht you should be focusing on..what will stop my depression for good!

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