[TheForge] Cure for a bad burn?

[Bruce Freeman]

Use WET ice only!. If water-ice is wet on the outside it is 32*F.
(Colder than that, it will freeze the water on the outside and, hence,
not be wet.)  Hence, dunk your ice in water to be sure.  If it freezes
the water on the outside, dunk it again.  Ice will not rise above
32*F.  Ice at 32*F you will not cause frostbite, because the water in
your tissues freezes below that (slightly, due to salt content of body
fluids).

One of the warnings about ice was simply that it can cause
hypothermia.  For small-area burns, that's not likely to be an issue.

Howsomever, I think water is generally cold enough to suck the excess
heat from your tissues in short order, after a burn.  Scrounging
around for ice merely wastes time you could be cooling the burn.


On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:44 PM,  <wmullett at bright.net> wrote:
> I don't care what is printed on the net.  First hand experience has shown that ice stops the damage from going any deeper.  Would I submerge a burned patient in ice?  NO!
>
> The trouble with these kind of posts is they assume the worst.... That the reader is a moron ... and they are probably right.
>
> ---- Original message ----
>>Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:11:54 -0500
>>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net (on behalf of "Clyde Wynia" <jurustic at gmail.com>)
>>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Cure for a bad burn?
>>To: "'Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>>
>>Lots of stuff on the net saying don't use ice, including this from Mayo
>>Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/first-aid-burns/FA00022
>>
>>

>



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Bruce
NJ