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Originally Posted by CaliLivChick
I've seen commercials for this stuff, but I've never tried it, so this is just passing on information:
Mederma
It's meant to reduce the appearance of scars, but I haven't seen anything about it preventing or eliminating scars. |
Mederma is one of the biggest ripoffs in history. The active ingredient is onion extract.
For treating the burn right away, burn gel is key. Cool the burn per Martian's suggestions, then apply burn gel--silver nitrate if you've got it, otherwise Bactine liquid is fine. Don't use Neosporin; the petroleum keeps the heat of the burn from getting out. Bandage the burn (only with plain COTTON gauze and minimal tape)and ice it periodically to help get the heat out and help with the pain.
Use vitamin E oil to help with the scarring afterwards--but taking care of the burn well to begin with (and not popping the blisters) will prevent scarring.
That's advice from a former line cook. When I first started working that job, my fingers were constantly getting burned. Eventually I evolved superfingers. To this day I can still pick up hot food off of a hot grill with bare fingers without getting burned. Nice.