1st, 2nd degree burns - need advice

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Hi, Serg, glad that all goes well :)
I cant help you, on the box it is only said: "bees wax, olive oil and herbal extracts, all natural" (I believe it is, you can eat it, and it cant last long outside the fridge :) ) No chemical compounds listed.

Thanks Avala. I asked you for compounds because I wanted to know if we have this medicine in our country. I really appreciate the fact that it does not have any chemical compounds in it.

About smoking: I think it is for sure for statistics and a lot of other reasons, but why didn't they ask about drinking alcohol? Alcohol really harms your body. A huge amount of Ukrainians drink.

Just caught this thread Serg and it has been over a week now and hope you are healing well; this is not nice. Every time i read about burns it hits hard. Your thread stands out too because just last weekend my mom passed me a book while smoking a cigarette on her patio called 'Tiny Dancer' written by Anthony Flacco about a young 9 year old girl from Afghanistan who "accidentally fell into a kerosene fire while heating water for a bath." She was left for dead and somehow ended up in hands that cared, eventually being treated by a Dr. Peter Grossman (plastic surgeon) in the US who reconstructed her. This was an amazing effort by many people and especially the will/spirit of this child. It is horrific to see her in those pages and so heart warming to see her smile after her treatments and changes.

Thank you for that recommendation Voyageur, that looks like a must read. Reading about cases such as this of extreme suffering, it just puts everything into perspective about how easy the lives for the few fortunate of us are, us who don't have to face daily violence and fear of death, suffering from horrible injuries, both physical and mental, hunger, displacement and the myriad of tragedies that are part of this existence.

Thaks voyageur. Most likely I will not read the book now, because I've already got tons of material what to read.
Yes, when you read something like that you understand that you don't have any problems at all. And when you get such problems as you listed, rylek, everything that bothered you become insignificant. (I can't put the words together in a better way to express exactly what I think )
Also, it reminds me the men who was my neighbor for some time, and who served in the Afghanistan during the war. He didn't say anyone and go there, because his wife cheated on him. He is homeless and an alcoholic now. From time to time I used to have a drink with him. He told a lot of horrible stuff. The torturing methods that was used there, for example: they would put a snake in to a pot and would make the prisoner to sit to let the snake enter through the anus. American Afro-Americans female snipers shot the enemy right to the private part. He said they did the same to then later. Once he helped to heal an injured cobra, fed her until it got better, she even gave her a name Shelma. Then she served him, as a scout, it seems also she protects him from the enemies.

Thanks all for yours recommendations and even a couple of words can be great help :)

 

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Hi all, I just want to said I'm going on a lot better right now. Everything almost completely healed. The wound was already a little, around 5 days ago.
I had to use Baniocin for 7 days, because I was afraid that that pus could develop and I don't know the other way to stop it. I feel how Baniocin affected on my body, it wasn't good, even if it was cream, but with antibiotics. When I end with Baniocin, I used Vishnevsogo's ointment, then again the Solcoseryl Gel and now it will be a second day of using bandages covered in betadine.
Thanks once again for your help.

 

[Timey]

Hey Serg, I'm glad to hear you're healing up. I cringed inside a bit when reading your first post, very nasty stuff. Blistering burns can be the worst, and in that area...yikes!

The story about the Afghanistan veteran is grim to say the least, and I think highlights the effects that warfare can have upon the mind. Just my two cents.

Get well soon!

 

[nicklebleu]

Hi Serg,

Glad to hear that you have healed well ...

As to the pus ... that is not necessarily pus what you saw on the wound. Wounds often get a whitish-yellow material on them, which is just a fibrin layer that the wound exudes. It often is enough just to scrape/ wash it away and rarely requires antibiotic ointments. A bit painful to do, though ...

As to the temperature ... this often is just a sign of wound healing, inflammation (which is the body's mechanism of wound healing). Nothing to be too worried about. It's a different thing if the temperature rises above 38.5 and you also start to have rigors (shivering, feeling cold alternating with hot flushes). This is an alarm sign and requires antibiotic treatment (as in oral medication).

But from what you tell, all seems to go well now! The only thing to be aware now is not to expose the newly grown skin to too much sun ... but that shouldn't be too much of a problem given the location of your burn!

 

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Hi Serg,

Glad to hear that you have healed well ...

As to the pus ... that is not necessarily pus what you saw on the wound. Wounds often get a whitish-yellow material on them, which is just a fibrin layer that the wound exudes. It often is enough just to scrape/ wash it away and rarely requires antibiotic ointments. A bit painful to do, though ...

As to the temperature ... this often is just a sign of wound healing, inflammation (which is the body's mechanism of wound healing). Nothing to be too worried about. It's a different thing if the temperature rises above 38.5 and you also start to have rigors (shivering, feeling cold alternating with hot flushes). This is an alarm sign and requires antibiotic treatment (as in oral medication).

Hi nicklebleu,
Thanks for information. If it would be wound in some other place I would wash/scrape it, but in this area it was painful. I tried to do it, but the little area where I scrape it, start bleeding (not bleeding just a little amount of blood came out).
I can say that I almost didn't feel that I have temperature. Usually when I have such temperature, I feel cold and it is the sign of its increasing.

I really glad that I stay home. Which doctor would give you a cig and let you smoke during the bandaging process.
At the hospital where I was they didn't even allow to smoke on the territory of the hospital. And I don't know what I could eat there. And even if it wasn’t so, who would let me outside to smoke. And staying in the hospital it is very deprresive for me, and it would have been so.


When I burned it was really painful, and I was confused what to do. But then with all these help from people on the forum and my wife, I, in some part, forget about my wound.

It was a good lesson. I spilled the cup on me, because I was acting mechanically. I can’t say that it was accident, it was all my fault. If I would be aware of everything around me, (there wasn’t a lot of thing that could harm me) I would have known what and how each thing could make damage to me, and it wouldn’t happened. And it works not only for such situation.

But from what you tell, all seems to go well now! The only thing to be aware now is not to expose the newly grown skin to too much sun ... but that shouldn't be too much of a problem given the location of your burn!

I was laughing while reading it. :D It may be a problem if I would be one of the nudists. I didn't have anything against them, but it is good that I'm not one of them. :)