Burns, their types, symptoms and treatment

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Throughout the month of Ramadan, Yabiladi offers you daily health advice. This fifteenth capsule of our “Allô Doc” series is dedicated to skin burns, which can depend on several agents and beings of different degrees.

While fasting can only be beneficial for the human body, the lack of concentration that some people may experience makes them vulnerable in certain situations. And burns are one of those dangers that can lie in wait.

Considered as a destruction of the skin covering or even of the underlying tissues, burns can be “domestic or professional”, specifies Sabrine Kamal, doctor in the resuscitation and emergency department at Mohammed V airport in Casablanca. Recalling that the skin is made up of the epidermis, the dermis and the hypodermis or fatty tissue, the practitioner emphasizes that the degree of a burn remains linked to these layers.

“Don’t put anything on a burn except water to cool it”

“When it is the first layer, the epidermis, which is affected, it is called a first degree burn”, she explains, citing the example of exposure to the sun or during use, for example. the girls, of a wax. “We then notice a kind of redness in connection with the vessels which open,” she says.

“A second degree burn is a burn that affects the injunction between the epidermis and the dermis which can manifest as bubbles or blisters which should not be handled in any way. And it is when we have a degree of heat of more than 65° that we find damage to the third layer of the skin, where we must go urgently to a hospital.

Sabrine Kamal

Our doctor warns once morest burns, which can be very extensive, “thus affecting the muscle, bone or nerve and inducing necrosis”. “Untreated, this type of burn can cause the amputation of a limb,” she warns.

Doctor Sabrine Kamal also reminds us that burns can be “thermal”, induced by heat. “In this case, you have to cool the skin, using only water,” she explains. She suggests leaving the burn under water for 15 minutes and observing the condition of the skin. “You have to wrap it in a sterile compress and go to the doctor,” explains the practitioner.

In the event of electrical burns, “select the affected areas, try to cool them and then put the victim in a seated position,” she advises.

The doctor also cites “burns by chemical agents and by inhalation”. She also recalls that “you should not put anything on a burn apart from water to cool it and it is imperative to go to the doctor if you suffer from one”.