Re: Treating Burns
Darren, from your picture, although it is weeping, you still have a very good amount of skin under the burn, not what I was expecting from the way you described it.
My advice would be to dress it with gauze and just a few wraps of breathable bandage and change the dressing twice a day until the weeping has stopped. It is not dry so there is no need to put any cream of any description on (that's only for dry, cracking burns like I said).
You need to have a dressing soak up the moisture and while it is moist, you need to protect it from becomming infected, so dressing at home will suffice for that burn. It's not serious due to amount of healthy looking skin there and should heal up in 10 days or so.
Just go get it checked by your doctor today if it starts to hurt more, the weeping gets worse or it gets red and hot.
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