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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 401458" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>It could be the cream changing colour chemically as it reacts with the serum from the broken skin. Look at the wound and see how it looks. Is there a red area around the outside of the burn? Is it swollen? Does it look like it could be producing any coloured gunk? Check the label, what is in it? </p><p></p><p>It sounds like you're using the Telfa pads, they're the ones that have a sort of cellophane look to them. They are a dry dressing which means you have to stick ten down with something. The cream can help, but the dressing pad itself is too think to hold itself in place that way, you need something else to hold it in place. Go carefully with the adhesive on your skin (from what you use to stick it on). Even micropore, supposed to be non-damaging, will take off my skin if I leave it in place for more than six hours.</p><p></p><p>If the burn is doing OK, it could be doing anything from being raw and bleeding, to pale with new skin forming. If it's raw and bleeding, it can look quite dark, like fresh raw steak. That's OK. It's when you have a red area outside the burn and that red area is getting larger and is also painful and hot, that you need to worry. </p><p></p><p>The stuff I was putting on mine (Solosite) is clear and gel-like, so it was fairly easy for me to be sure it was not pus.</p><p></p><p>Try rinsing down between dressings change - irrigate with saline. Don't rub. Try to not even dab. Just lean forward and squirt saline over the area. Or if you can have a tepid shower or bath, gently rinse the area then pour clean water over (not bathwater) to give it a final clean rinse. Then see if there is any yellow stuff, or anything looking creamy at all, remaining.</p><p></p><p>There is a kind of burn cream, I think it contains picrate in some form, which looks mostly white but will change to yellow on exposure to air. </p><p></p><p>If in doubt, ask the doctor. If you can while rinsing, add a drop of ti-tree oil to the rinse water.</p><p></p><p>You can buy sterile saline from the pharmacy but I make my own. I use filtered water, but it is going in my eyes (contact lenses). The formula is 0.9 g cooking salt, to 100 ml of boiled water. It can be difficult to measure 0.9 g accurately, so boost the quantity to a litre - 9 g salt per litre of boiled water. Bring it to the boil (microwave oven is good) in a glass jug, then pour it into a clean bottle which has been scaled with boiling water. Make a fresh batch every day. Don't use it until it cools. Do not use a metal lid on the container you store the saline solution in. This makes isotonic saline which is the same concentration as the salt water in your body. That means it is gentler than pure water on your body.</p><p></p><p>I hope you continue to heal without complications.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 401458, member: 1991"] It could be the cream changing colour chemically as it reacts with the serum from the broken skin. Look at the wound and see how it looks. Is there a red area around the outside of the burn? Is it swollen? Does it look like it could be producing any coloured gunk? Check the label, what is in it? It sounds like you're using the Telfa pads, they're the ones that have a sort of cellophane look to them. They are a dry dressing which means you have to stick ten down with something. The cream can help, but the dressing pad itself is too think to hold itself in place that way, you need something else to hold it in place. Go carefully with the adhesive on your skin (from what you use to stick it on). Even micropore, supposed to be non-damaging, will take off my skin if I leave it in place for more than six hours. If the burn is doing OK, it could be doing anything from being raw and bleeding, to pale with new skin forming. If it's raw and bleeding, it can look quite dark, like fresh raw steak. That's OK. It's when you have a red area outside the burn and that red area is getting larger and is also painful and hot, that you need to worry. The stuff I was putting on mine (Solosite) is clear and gel-like, so it was fairly easy for me to be sure it was not pus. Try rinsing down between dressings change - irrigate with saline. Don't rub. Try to not even dab. Just lean forward and squirt saline over the area. Or if you can have a tepid shower or bath, gently rinse the area then pour clean water over (not bathwater) to give it a final clean rinse. Then see if there is any yellow stuff, or anything looking creamy at all, remaining. There is a kind of burn cream, I think it contains picrate in some form, which looks mostly white but will change to yellow on exposure to air. If in doubt, ask the doctor. If you can while rinsing, add a drop of ti-tree oil to the rinse water. You can buy sterile saline from the pharmacy but I make my own. I use filtered water, but it is going in my eyes (contact lenses). The formula is 0.9 g cooking salt, to 100 ml of boiled water. It can be difficult to measure 0.9 g accurately, so boost the quantity to a litre - 9 g salt per litre of boiled water. Bring it to the boil (microwave oven is good) in a glass jug, then pour it into a clean bottle which has been scaled with boiling water. Make a fresh batch every day. Don't use it until it cools. Do not use a metal lid on the container you store the saline solution in. This makes isotonic saline which is the same concentration as the salt water in your body. That means it is gentler than pure water on your body. I hope you continue to heal without complications. Marg [/QUOTE]
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