Most burns experienced by the average person are minor. We accidentally burn ourselves with hot water, red-hot metal, fire from a gas stove, etc. All types of burns can be divided into several categories. Let's take a closer look at this and more.
What are the types of burns?
There are the following varieties that a person may encounter:
- Thermal. Typically, these types of burns are caused by fire, steam, hot objects, or liquids. Scalding with boiling water is the most common case of scalding experienced by both children and adults. A burn from inhaling hot steam or gas, after which the lungs can be damaged, is also common.
- Exposure to the skin at a critically low temperature (frostbite) is also a type of burn.
- Electrical. Occurs when the skin comes into contact with electrical wires.
- Chemical. Types of burns that occur when various chemicals come into contact with the skin, such as acid, alkali, s alt.
- Ray. May occur with prolonged exposure to the sun, in a solarium, underexposure to X-rays, during radiation therapy, etc.
- Burns caused by friction. Often occur when an object rubs against the skin. For example, athletes can be injured while falling on mats.
Types of burns, their degrees. Caution to children
A burn can damage not only the skin, but also the organs underneath. These are muscles, veins, nerves, lungs and eyes. There are types of burns of the first, second, third (A, B) and fourth degree. The degree is set by doctors depending on how badly the skin and other tissues have been damaged. The degrees can be described like this:
- First. The burn of the uppermost layer of the skin - the epithelium. It has redness and slight pain.
- Second. The epithelium is damaged up to the germ layer. Manifested by the formation of a blister with a serous mass.
- Third degree (A). The dermis is affected, but its bottom remains practically unscathed (sebaceous glands, hair follicles, sweat glands). It appears as large blisters. The wound may deepen over time.
- Third degree (B). Skin death.
- Fourth. The death of tissues under the skin, down to the bones.
The condition of a patient with burns is determined based on several factors, including:
- depth, size, cause, which part of the body is damaged, what is the general he alth of the victim;
- collateral damage such ascuts, fractures and others.
Many parents take various actions to prevent small children from getting burned. The types of burns (burn prevention may differ depending on this) that a child can get at home are varied. In order to prevent this, you need:
- do not leave household chemicals unattended: vinegar, alcohol, etc.;
- also make sure that irons and other hot objects do not remain indoors without adults;
- close sockets with special plugs;
- keep an eye on the baby, which is the surest way to protect him from burns.
