Workplace Injury

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Cheers

Phil Hobbs

A cup of ice water? I remember playing capture the flag at boy scout camp with my one hand in a bucket of water that I was dragging around after burning my hand.

George H.

Never ice a burn injury. You run the affected area under cool (not cold) water. For a small soldering-iron second-degree burn on the fingers about 15-20 seconds should do. Take one or two ibuprofen immediately, apply Neosporin around the edges of where the blister will form, and apply a bandage (I like the band-aids with the yellow have-a-nice-day-smiley on them.)

After the scab forms remove bandage and re-apply Neosporin daily until scab falls off. Depending on depth and size some discoloration will remain for several weeks up to a couple months on small burn injuries but on the hands at least for me the minor ones seem to heal without scarring.

Bad advice.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I prefer ice cream sandwiches. I'm allergic to neosporin anyhow.

I find that running cold water carries away more heat.

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If you get ice or other cold bit on the burned area, you will not get a blister and not need Neosporin.

Dan

A finger burn doesn't need the primary heat of the burn removed. It needs constant gentle cold to prevent the swelling from causing more damage than it helps.

In an infection, a certain amount inflammation is a good thing--it helps the body's immune resources get where they're needed. In a burn with no infection, it's more of a hindrance.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(Not a doctor, but a former Industrial First Aid attendant)

"Minor burn injury, step 1: Buy a 1994 V12 BMW 830Ci and leave your wife immediately for a 23 y/o goth stripper from Las Vegas of questionable emotional stability"

would be "bad advice"

I believe the rule-of-thumb is that outside of certain specific circumstances you wouldn't apply anything directly to a wound, acutely, that you would hesitate to apply directly to your cojones.

Is that intended to be some sort of limitation???

I'm so glad you gave us your best bad advice the first time.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Sounds like a good way to get a secondary infection.

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JL cracked a funny.

.... Phil

"There's safety in numbers."

And the safest number is 1.

Haven't tried ice cream. Most of the time if I do it these days, I don't even bother to swear, unless the tip isn't clean and it's cooled off a little -- that hurts more.

You'd think that after decades of soldering, I'd have learned that you just can't solder fingers.

LOL That was a good one.

Yesterday my son burned his hand by dropping hot glue on it while repairing his game pad. He ran cold water on the hand and then applied toothpaste. Worked well.

Try indium-tin eutectic and an ultrasonic iron. The right flux helps too.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Do you mean another finger? Where can you get those?

Mike.