![]() Said unfortunate woman was "immediately dredged with flour, and folded up in finely carded cotton wool," given doses of calomel and opium, then over the next few days further dosed with sulphate of magnesia (presumably as a laxative). In it, a physician recounted his experience in treating a maid servant who had had a pot of boiling water fall upon her, scalding her neck, bust and arms. Interestingly, an article that appeared in a 1848 medical journal seems to offer support to the "flour as preventative for scarring" aspect of the e-mail's story. (Similarly, salves and ointments are not applied to burns until the wounded area has fully cooled, because otherwise that which is intended to heal will instead trap the heat within the flesh, thereby allowing further damage to take place.) The highest priority is to get the temperature of the injured area back down to normal, and this is not accomplished by cocooning the wound within a substance that will effectively hold the heat in place. (Bandaging can be omitted when the injury is small and there is no break in the skin.) Neither butter nor oil should ever be applied to any burn, although once the wound has been properly cooled and dried, antibiotic ointments or aloe vera gel could be applied before dressing the area.īecause cooling the wound is of paramount importance, sticking a burned hand into a sack of flour would be a mistake, whether the flour has been refrigerated or not. Only after the wound has been effectively cooled should the injured area be dried off, then dressed with a clean bandage. If the injury cannot be immersed or positioned under a faucet, cool water is to be poured over it for the same amount of time. Doing so halts the burning process, numbs the pain, and prevents or reduces swelling. For this reason, the recommended action is to immediately immerse the burned area in cool water or under gently running cool water for a minimum of five minutes. Effective first aid begins with stopping the burning process otherwise, the affected flesh continues to cook, further damaging the injured area. Try it! BTW, don't run your burn area under cold water first, just put it right into the flour for 10 minutes and experience a miracle!įirst degree burns (which are the least severe of the three classes of this type of injury) can be treated at home without summoning additional medical assistance. I even burnt my tongue and put the flour on it for about 10 minutes. Keep a bag of white flour in your fridge and you will be happy you did. Now, I keep a bag of flour in the fridge and every time I burn myself, I use the flour and never ONCE have I ever had a red spot, a burn or a blister! *cold flour feels even better than room temperature flour. SOOOO, long story short, I put my hand in the bag of flour for 10 minutes, pulled it out and had not even a red mark or a blister and absolutely NO PAIN. well, it not only put the fire out, but he never even had a blister!!!! He said that in Vietnam, this guy was on fire and in their panic, they threw a bag of flour all over him to put the fire out. ![]() He said to keep my hand in the flour for 10 minutes. I pulled out a bag and he stuck my hand in it. I missed and my hand went into the boiling water.Ī friend of mine, who was a Vietnam vet, came into the house, just as I was screaming, and asked me if I had some plain old flour. ![]() Once I was cooking some corn and stuck my fork in the boiling water to see if the corn was ready. The advice it provides runs contrary to all accepted knowledge about how to treat burns and thus should not be heeded: A seemingly helpful medical heads-up about treating burns began making the rounds on the Internet in March 2011.
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