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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 400326" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I posted at length on your other thread with some suggestions about dressings, based on my experience dressing my burns from radiation treatment. Did the doctor give you anything to use as dressings? The stuff I was given to use is like a wet net in a sealed foil packet. It's like it's got a gel impregnated in it, but I was able to add more stuff to the net before I gently laid it over the burst blisters. Honey is a good burns dressing material, but don't apply it direct to the skin, instead apply it to the wet dressing. The honey dressing then sticks to the skin and holds itself there, you can cover the wet dressing lightly with gauze. Go very gently because even a burst blister gives a little protection while the skin is still there. Leave the wet dressings in place as long as you can, and go VERY carefully removing any dressings - you don't want to take the skin off too. I wasn't able to stick dressings down, because of the size of the affected area. So I held everything in place with sanitary pads and breast pads, stuck to the inside of my clothing. To get a honey dressing off as gently as possible, soak it off gently in a tepid bath. It should just float off.</p><p></p><p>Part of mine was a full thickness burn, when the skin lifted off, it began to bleed. Other areas just went black and the skin rubbed off in small pieces. But careful management has left me with minimal effect now. I have a couple of slightly darker skin patches, that is all. And those are fading.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 400326, member: 1991"] I posted at length on your other thread with some suggestions about dressings, based on my experience dressing my burns from radiation treatment. Did the doctor give you anything to use as dressings? The stuff I was given to use is like a wet net in a sealed foil packet. It's like it's got a gel impregnated in it, but I was able to add more stuff to the net before I gently laid it over the burst blisters. Honey is a good burns dressing material, but don't apply it direct to the skin, instead apply it to the wet dressing. The honey dressing then sticks to the skin and holds itself there, you can cover the wet dressing lightly with gauze. Go very gently because even a burst blister gives a little protection while the skin is still there. Leave the wet dressings in place as long as you can, and go VERY carefully removing any dressings - you don't want to take the skin off too. I wasn't able to stick dressings down, because of the size of the affected area. So I held everything in place with sanitary pads and breast pads, stuck to the inside of my clothing. To get a honey dressing off as gently as possible, soak it off gently in a tepid bath. It should just float off. Part of mine was a full thickness burn, when the skin lifted off, it began to bleed. Other areas just went black and the skin rubbed off in small pieces. But careful management has left me with minimal effect now. I have a couple of slightly darker skin patches, that is all. And those are fading. Marg [/QUOTE]
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