what happens when you heat steel to a blue color and touch it???

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Dammit. the blister is gonna be the size of a dime, basically half the fingertip pad. MAN that sucker hurts.
 
I'm not a doctor, but I was a medic in the military. It sounds like you have no more than a second degree burn. It could've been worse and been a 3rd degree in which case the skin would not grow back, you would need grafting. Stop touching hot metal!!!:D
 
No, licking it is fine, the saliva on your tongue will create a vapor barrier so your tongue will be okay. Give it a try sometime!

Well, maybe you shouldn't...
 
Your response was pretty reserved.


When a friend of mine was confined in a hospital bed, he somehow managed to rub a blister on his leg about the size of a half dollar.
Not knowing what to do, I went to the pharmacy and asked what they had to treat it. The pharmacist, I know, not a Doc., said do not pierce or drain the blister, put cold/ ice carefully on it and it will take the blister down...
I don't remember for how long or how wrapped in cloth he said, but it sure worked. Also needed to protect it from being rubbed after it went down.
Also was safer from infection if you didn't break the blister, the pharmacist said.
 
I dunno but I bet it F'n STINKS! You ever spit on something very hot and it sizzles away and you smell it? UGH!
 
I apologize if I'm making light of your situation. Getting burned stinks, hope it heals fast!

~Jonah
 
good advice from John R. Fraps. Ice or ice cold water immediately and keep at it for a long as you can. It really reduces the blisters. By the next day my skin looks like it had never been burned.
 
Youch! Reminds me of a few years ago when I was working with a chainsaw and let the muffler touch my leg (I was wearing shorts). A hunk of skin about the size and thickness of a silver dollar stuck to the muffler and pulled away, neat as pie. After the initial "ZING!" it didn't even hurt much, and healed nicely. I have a good scar there to remind me though.
 
Put the burn area under water and the pain will go away, its an air contact thingie. Butter and petroleum jelly are no no's until the heat is gone from the wound.
 
take a needle with a thread pass it through the blister and leave it ther for the night you'll get up in the morning and it will be dry

be well

avi
 
I've found that holding ice or something really cold on a burn as soon as possible for several minutes really helps in reducing the severity of the burn and time it takes to heal.
 
69_knives said:
I've found that holding ice or something really cold on a burn as soon as possible for several minutes really helps in reducing the severity of the burn and time it takes to heal.
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Absolutely right,

What's actually happening is even though you have taken your finger away from the source of the heat, the skin does continue to cook and you can in fact make the burn worse if you don't "cool" it down immediately. When you cool it down, it basically halts the progress of the burn.

To help explain, think about when you cook bacon, you take it off the pan, but it still continues to cook in it's own juices.
 
KB1SYV said:
To help explain, think about when you cook bacon, you take it off the pan, but it still continues to cook in it's own juices.
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mmmm... Bacon...

I've heard that butter helps burns, then then I heard it doesn't help all that much. Does it or doesn't it??? :confused:
 
It does not help.Any greasy item,butter, vasoline and the likes will hold heat in and make it worse.Ice on a burn quickly.

MMMMM...Bacon:D
 
SBuzek said:
It does not help.Any greasy item,butter, vasoline and the likes will hold heat in and make it worse.Ice on a burn quickly.

MMMMM...Bacon:D
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Exactly. I think it's an old wives tale or something pulled from the Farmers Almanac:D
 
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