Every child is full of curiosity, when they start learning to walk or craw around with their little hands and feet, if not careful can cause serious accidents like over turn pot of boil water or serious burn with hot stove. If children do get burn, what are the steps for parents should do at first hand?

First Aid for Burns Injury:

Should be immediately washed with tap water for at least 15-20 minutes, or allow the swollen area to immersed in cold water for at least 15 minutes to quickly reduce the skin surface temperature, control the injury, to prevent deep heat penetration to the skin, causing intense pain, and so also reduce the painful feeling of the injured area. Rapid cool down the wound to prevent the formation of burn scar areas.

If the affected area is covered with clothing, then together with the clothing rinse at once, as the harden clothing when taken off will add scalded skin damage.

Continue to soak in cold water for 10 minutes, reduce the emotional pain and stabilize the child. However, if the burned area is large, or the child is too young, is advice not to soak for too long, so as to avoid excessive temperature drops, or delay in treatment time.

Cover the wound with a clean towel or sterile gauze, to prevent wound infection.

Apart from minor burns, the best way is to take the child to the nearby hospital to be checked immediately to avoid affecting the progress of treatment.

Burns were divided into 3 levels:

1st degree burns: The surface burns, injuries to the skin surface that is usually only result in redness, swelling and tenderness, but no blisters.

2nd degrees burns: has reached the dermis, the affected area which will causes burn blisters, swelling, and turns red, there is severe pain and burning sensation.

3rd degree burns: a serious burn, the extent of injury affected each layer of the skin, the skin surface is pale color, peripheral dark red, blistering, numb.

Notes for Burns Injury:

1. Blisters is a layer of natural protection network, do not puncture the blisters, otherwise it will easily lead to wound infections.

2. Do not stimulate the burned area with ice, because ice will cause burns, this will only let the children suffer again.

3. Can not applied toothpaste, soy oil or oily materials to the burned area because the heat trapped in the skin will affect the progress of evaporation, increase the degree of burns.

4. Do not recommend casual cream for burns because it will interfere with medical treatment.

5. Bandage the affected area, these wrappings must not have adhesive, non-pile surface.

Preventing Burns Accidents:

• Kitchen door should be fenced to prevent the child from going in.

• Hot food or drink can not be placed on edge of the stage. Such as have food on the table, parents should pay attention to their child move.

• When using the bath tub for bath, parents should be heated before adding in the cold water and stir by hand and also to test the water temperature.

• Avoid using the microwaves reheat milk or other food for baby, because by microwave reheating of food or drink, the temperature is not evenly distributed, the Department may cause the baby nozzle or throat burn.

• When feeding or serving hot food to the child, should test the temperature is suitability for eating before giving it to the child to avoid burning them.

• Dangerous goods should be properly stored.