Kitchen burns.
I burned my fingers on a baking sheet. Ouch! I took ibuprofen and am icing my fingers. What do you do for burns?
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I burned my fingers on a baking sheet. Ouch! I took ibuprofen and am icing my fingers. What do you do for burns?
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This is for a "fast touch" burn. BUT if your skin had longer contact with the heat/hot surface: put the burned area in contact w ICE or ICE WATER to STOP the heat to keep burning the affected area. Hope I could help for IF and WHEN. :)
Right after it happens, cut open a tomato and squeeze the slimy, seed part onto your burn and rub it in a little. This helps it heal faster and the burn is never as bad as it would be without doing it.
Get better soon.
Medical professionals are discouraging the use of neosporin now and recommending polysporin instead.
What's worse than a sheet pan burn? Hot Louisiana roux because it sticks like napalm.
Alcohol and over-the-counter drugs will make you, but not the burn, feel better, and it's difficult to conduct life while walking around with a bag of frozen peas molded around your fingers, or while that hand is plunged into a glass of ice water. You will be blowing on or shaking that hand in the air every time you remove it from the cold.
Go to the drugstore and get some antiseptic burn gel. It is cooling and soothing and has stuff that ends with "-caine." Using it will allow you to perform everyday tasks that require the application of heat that you otherwise might not think twice about, like showering or shampooing or blowing your hair dry. Do you know what it's like to blow dry a burn? Do you know how hard it is to blow-dry hair using just one hand? A tube of burn gel is a lot less fussy to use than a bag of frozen peas, and it beats taking cool showers for the next two or three days.
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Unlike the silicon gloves, which are great in their own right for dealing with liquids, they aren't slippery and have fingers that help with stability for moving hot stuff from the oven, and they're perfect for shucking oysters.
I used to work in a foundry ages ago and still the worse burns I've had where kitchen burns.
I'd started out thinking I'd have a baking sheet a level down to catch leakage. After the blind baking, I decided that the tart pan should be right on the baking sheet. I ended up with big burns at the base of my thumb, on the rest of my thumb, and on three other fingers.
Fortunately, I knew to immediate run my hand in cold water and then I let it soak in water with a little ice. Since then, I've become a huge fan of Second Skin products. The moist burn pads make your skin look like you've been in the water for days (in fact you have), but work great. For my worst blister, I used a moist burn pad, put a regular band aid over it for a little more padding, and then sealed it on with either a stretch self-gripping tape or an adhesive tape. Second Skin blister pads are also good. I changed the dressings every day. The first day, I dabbed a little aloe vera gel on before the dressing. After that, there wasn't any pain, so I used a little neosporin instead. I stopped that after I was sure I wasn't getting any infections.
And yes, the Sadassa_Ulna treatment. That one is also good for the common cold.
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