To treat oil burn there are lots of conflicting opinions, e.g some people say that you are suppose to use tooth paste place it on your skin for at least 4 hours or rubbing yourself with fish soya sauce. I never tried them, but I suspect its not a good idea...
My hand had recovered with no blisters. Guess the first aid method I used should be passible, or the oil that splashed on my skin is not as hot (mentioned by Jac) Some things that I learnt that can be done:
- The moment you get burnt by the oil, you should place your burnt area under running water, wait till the pain subside then move away from it. (actually I heard that its preferably 15mins - at least)
- Another thing that is good to use, dumping lots and lots of ice into a pail, submerge and soak your burnt area into the pail. Keep splashing the ice cold water on skin, till your skin feels numb. (It is advised that you should never use ice directly on the skin cos it will cause more harm then helping you, I asked the doctor and she confirms that).
- You should use mild soap to wash off the oil (as the oil will still be stuck on your skin after you splah water on it), which I should have done it before everything else sigh..
- What helps to relief the burning pain use aleo vera (if you have planted aleo vera, comfirmed by the doctor, its good to use aleo vera), since I don't have any the next best is the aleo jelly, which I use excessive aleo gelly on my skin. (I felt cooling sensation after just applying a thick layer of it over my burnt area, the best is to use air conditioned to blow on the burnt area)
The whole night after the burn is the worst nightmare...oh if you go straight to the doctor's most likely the doctor is going to apply silver on your skin to help cool your skin down...what it will do is that its going to cause your skin to change color (turn black?).
Sigh...my skin peeling...and feels very itchy...itchy means good...means that my skin is healing...feels like a snake now...
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