[TheForge] Cure for a bad burn?

[Andrew Vida]

This does not sound even remotely sane.

My cure for a severe burn is ice.  I have burned myself severely several 
times.  By severe I mean charring of the skin.  It's been a while since 
the last time.  I was forging something from 1" square stock.  Set the 
glowing bar down to get a drink.  Came back, forgot I'd been using 
tongs, and grabbed a +/- 900* piece of steel and lifted it off the forge 
before getting the message.  Marshall had the pleasure of watching me do 
the dance around the shop for a couple of minutes, wincing in empathy 
for what he knew me to having been going through.

My right hand was burned black in places on the palm and fingers.  It 
was one of the more severe burns with which I had managed to grace 
myself.  I closed down the forge and got home perhaps within 1/2 hour of 
the blessed event.  I filled a ziplock bag with ice, zipped my hand into 
  it, laid on the couch with idiot box on.  As the hand is cooling it 
hurts like the devil, but I kept it in.  Eventually I slept, woke maybe 
4 hours later, changed the ice, slept about 3 more hours.  After 7 hours 
in ice there was no pain.  In a week you could barely tell I had been 
burned.  That is my treatment for burns.

Ron Childers wrote:
> I received an e-mail stating a cure for burns is to immerse the burned
> area in a box of flour. (Don't wet the burn first). Keeping the flour in
> the refrigerator is supposed to be even better. Has anyone ever heard of
> this, or tried it? I have kept aloe plants for years but they keep
> dying.  
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