Minor Burn Treatment

[godfather]

Just thought you may want to know of a product I used to treat a minor burn on my thumb that I picked up whilst using a grill in a camp fire yesterday. My wife swiftly came to the rescue with a small sachet of gel.
The stuff is called Water-jel and is fantatsic. I put some on the blister immediately after the accident yesterday and covered with a plaster. I re-applied 3 times and today you can hardly see the scar.

http://www.waterjel.com/

Godfather

 

[leon-b]

or you could just pop the blisters on the basalm fur and put the resin on your burn lol well thats what it says in mors's bushcraft book
leon

 

[Draven]

I'm horrible at first aid, I should really consider getting better. If it's a cut, i'll stick some superglue in it, tie my bandana around it, ignore it or all three (in that order...).
For burns, I generally just complain about it
Sounds like it could be a useful buy though...
Got a burn on my hand from the exhaust probe used for emissions testing yesterday

 

[spamel]

or you could just pop the blisters on the basalm fur and put the resin on your burn lol well thats what it says in mors's bushcraft book
leon

I remember reading that and I'm sure somebody had this treatment applied by Mors himself at the last bushmoot. Does it actualy work is what I want to know.

 

[xylaria]

I am all for trying natural remedies, but the some of medicines that can be got from pharmcies for burns are excellant. They really work. I used to use comfrey sap on burns, which works pretty well, I then tried flamazine cream. The speed it works at was fantastic.

Useally I hate allopathic medicine as I feel drug companies are no better than snake oil sales man, and docs are their patsys with little understanding of what makes people ill. But some of the modern burn creams really do work, and are better and cleaner than the herbal alternatives.

 

[Fenlander]

The gel found between the leaves, at the base of the stem of Reed Mace is effective for treating burns (isn't it Rod ).

 

[hammock monkey]

i've never found anything better than aloe vera, for the home/ workshop its pretty great.
i rememeber having a very unsuccesful crack at a hand drill once and got a couple of 1p size blisters burst on my hands that were on the verge of bleeding which i knew were going to be pretty annoying.
i cut a good size piece of aloe, drained it on my hand and left i there. it looked a mess for a few days but wasnt painful at all, and healed with no scar.
works on just about any skin complaint - nurses recommend it for burns patients after radiation treatment etc above other shop bought ointments.
its as close as i've ever found to a miracle cure. the bought stuff in a tube is pretty poor in comparison, the live stuff is amazing.

 

[PJMCBear]

I remember reading that and I'm sure somebody had this treatment applied by Mors himself at the last bushmoot. Does it actualy work is what I want to know.

That was Singeblister, and it did work. He's no scar and it was a nasty burn. Mind you, on Singeblisters hands, you'd be hard put to find an area that wasn't scarred . How's the hand doing John?

 

[Justin Time]

I remember reading that and I'm sure somebody had this treatment applied by Mors himself at the last bushmoot. Does it actualy work is what I want to know.

Was it stuff that Mors had brought with him? Balsam fir is not a common tree in the UK, it's not mentioned in my Collins field guide and Plants for a future says it grows best (for the uk) in Perthshire so I'd be pleasantly surprised if it or an equivalent grows at Methyr Mawr.

 

[Toddy]

I wondered that too I've only seen one balsam fir here, in a nature conservancy area, and it was chopped down because it wasn't native
It was a beautiful tree and the scent was wonderful, wish I'd gotten more of hte resin.
cheers,
Toddy

 

[Fenlander]

It was indeed stuff that Mors had bought with him.

 

[dommyracer]

From a First Aid point of view I was always taught that immersion in cold liquid ASAP is the best thing for minor burns - is this still considered best practice in current First Aid teachings?

 

[godfather]

I agree that running the burn under cold water is a good idea however, there is a school of thought that says that the most efficient treatment is to use a burn gel as it cools the damaged skin and then maintains the cool temperature moist and sterile environment. I will try and dig out some clinical info.