Before applying a burn treatment, the burning agent must be impeded from producing further harm, for example, fires are extinguished, clothing, specially any that is smoldering (such melted synthetic shirts), covered with hot tar, or soaked with chemicals must be removed instantly.

Care at home includes maintaining the burn clean to avoid infection. Also, many patients are given analgesics, for at least a few days. The injury can be protected with a nonstick bandage or with sterile gauze. The gauze can be removed without sticking by previously being soaked in water.

Hospitalization is sometimes necessary for ideal care of burn injuries. Burns that keep a person from performing essential daily functions, such as walking or eating, make hospitalization necessary. Grievous burns, deep second- and third-degree burns, burns occurring in the very young or the very old, and burns involving the hands, feet, face, or genitals are usually best treated at burn centers. Burn centers are hospitals that are specifically equipped and staffed to care for burn patients.

Burn Classification

Superficial Minor Burns: The burn is carefully cleansed to avoid infection. If dirt is deeply incrusted, a doctor can give analgesics or numb the area by applying a local anesthetic and then scrub the lesion with a brush.

Deep Minor Burns: The burn may need evaluation at a hospital or doctor's office, possibly as often as daily for the first few days.

For this type of burn usually skin graft may be needed. Most skin grafts replace the burned skin. Other skin grafts help by temporarily covering and shielding the skin as it cures on its own. In a skin grafting treatment, a piece of healthy skin is taken from an unburned area of the patient's body (autograft), from another living or dead donor (allograft), or from different species (xenograft)usually pigs because their skin is very similar to human skin. The skin graft is surgically adhered over the burned area after removing any devitalized tissue and ensuring that the injury is clean. Autografts are forever. Allografts and xenografts, however, are rejected after 10 to 14 days by the patient's defensive mechanism. Artificial skin has been created recently and can also be used to replace the burned skin. Burned skin can be replaced anytime within several days of the burn.

Severe Burns: Grievous, life-threatening burns need immediate care.

Keeping the burned area clean is crucial, because the injured skin is easily infected.

Because severe burns take a long time to heal, sometimes years, and can cause disfigurement, the sufferer can become depressed.

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