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Soul
Any burns knowledge in here?
I've done my left hand twice recently and not sure if I'm doing the best job of looking after the injuries.
I didn't do anything to either burn immediately because they were both pretty bad so I figured the damage was done. Plus I did them in my garage which has no running water etc. And also I'm dumb.
1st injury was that I licked the flame from my oxy-propane torch across the top of my thumb. The skin split from the get go so it didn't form a blister. It was a bit mushy(?) looking but doing ok until I bumped it while working on a bike and that pulled some of the mushy skin off. I wrapped it up in a plaster but that seemed to be keeping it moist and the plaster pulled some tissue or whatever from the open area so today I've allowed to to dry out and it's sort of formed a scab. I was thinking that letting it scab would be the best way to get a protective layer on it and get it healing? It's still very tender.
2nd injury was grabbing a steerer tube that I'd been brazing into a crown, I didn't realise it would be so hot, the sizzle of skin was what alerted me.
In this case it's the inside of my thumb, middle, ring and pinky fingers that are injured. There are blisters but they seem to be pretty sturdy (I'm presuming because of the condition of the skin in these areas) except for the pinky which has burst and peeled slightly. I've been wearing a plaster around that one but taken it off as was starting to feel itchy where the adhesive was and it's all looking a bit wet and the skin that was over the blister seems quite loose.
Photos available but not posted yet in order to avoid peeps seeing their dinners again.