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Originally Posted by 5757
Butter + Burns= NO!!! My daughter had an accident with some hot lasagna recently. A friend suggested I put butter on the burn . . . . . . ![Hmm](/tfp/images/smilies/hmmm.gif) NO! Don't do this if you burn your skin. The butter retains the heat, therefore making it hotter. My grandma always made us put butter on our burns growing up. Ouch!
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The point of putting fat/oil on burns is to trap moisture and keep the skin from drying out. It might be percieved as warmer due to the loss of evaporative cooling, I suppose. By the time you get around to rubbing butter on it (which should be AFTER you've run it under cool water for 5 to 10 minutes, yes?) there's not really any heat left from the initial burn to be retained.