Which of the burns is characterized by open wounds with black charring and white patches of necrotic tissue?
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Definitely a third degree burn. I don't think there are fourth degree burns. Correction, there are fourth degree burns. On yahoo answers, you can learn a lot. :-)
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I had a really bad burn in 2003, and the scar is still a purplish color.  Burn scars are the worst and take a long time to heal.  Silvadean (sp?) is really good, but it is super expensive.  Another thing for bad scars is just to keep it out of the sun and elements.  During the summer, be sure to put lots of sun screen on it.  This is for a bad burn...I don't know how yours is.
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the ghost of the injuries.\n\n:>peace
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Hospitals have incinerators.They burn amputated body parts.
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The very first step is to stop the heat. Do this by submerging the burned area in cold water as fast as you can. If it is on a part of the body that you cannot submerge, then immediately pour cold water over the area several times or rinse the area under a faucet or shower. Remove any clothing that is covering the area, then poor some more water onto the burn. Be careful not to pull a still-hot shirt over the head as this may burn the face. Getting cold water onto the area as fast as possible is the single most important factor in minimizing the burn damage. \nDo not use ice. This can cause cold damage to the skin, which may make the burn worse. \nThe next step is to continue the cold water for at least 20 minutes. Submerging the burn is best, but if you cannot, then either run it under cold water or apply cold water-soaked washcloths repeatedly. \nDo not put any butter, grease, or powder on the burn. \n\nAFTER THE INITIAL 20 MINUTES OF COLD WATER, WHAT DO I DO NEXT?\nPain relief. Give yourself a dose of ibuprofen (Motrin or Advil). This will both help the pain and decrease the inflammation. \nAssess the burn. There are several degrees of burn. \nFirst degree burns. This is simply redness, with no blistering. This type of burn never leaves a scar if properly treated. \nSecond degree burns. This is redness with blistering of the skin and is usually the most painful type on burn. With proper treatment, this type of burn almost never leaves a scar. NEVER pop the blisters. \nThird degree burns. This occurs when many layers of skin are actually burned away. Usually there is no blister because all the top layers of skin are gone. This burn usually does leave a scar, even with proper treatment.\n\nFacial burns. These almost always warrant a call to your doctor right away, unless it involves a very small area, such as the size of a quarter or smaller. \n\nFirst degree burns. For this type of burn, you do not need any prescription cream. You also do not need to use an antibiotic cream. One of the best treatments is aloe vera. Buy a bottle of green 100% aloe gel and apply several times a day. Be sure to buy 100% aloe. Some bottles will say, "made with pure aloe", but only contain 10% aloe. Read the ingredients. It should basically only say aloe. You can also use the juice from the leaf of an aloe plant if you have one. \n\nSecond degree burns. Treating this type of burn is more complex. You should check with your doctor about how to treat your second-degree burns. Here are some general guidelines that we recommend. Twice a day do the following: \nRinse the area with comfortable temperature water. Use a sink or bathtub faucet. The stream of water will remove germs, dead skin, and debris. \nAir dry. \nApply prescription burn cream called Silvadene (the generic equivalent is silver sulfadiazine). This is an antibiotic cream that also has excellent healing properties. This is an important part of burn treatment because it is very effective at preventing infection. You need to apply it aseptically; buy a package of sterile tongue depressors to use. Use a lot of cream, as if you were icing a cake. When you change the bandage, if all the cream is worn off or soaked in, then you didn't use enough. Silvadene contains silver, and you will notice a dark "tarnish" discoloration on the bandages. \nCover with a bandage. Your doctor may recommend a specific type of bandage. Typically a non-stick pad is placed over the cream (one brand name is Telfa), than a gauze is taped or wrapped around the area. \nStretch. If the burn is on an area of the body that stretches or pulls a lot (such as the palm of the hand or palm side of the fingers), the burned skin is at risk of healing too tight. This is called a contracture. In this type of area, it is very important to stretch this skin around ten times a day for one minute. \nCut away the blister – after the blister pops on it's own. Your doctor may cut the dead blistered skin away
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I'm pretty sure they treat it like any other burn. Different places/doctors have their own preference depending on how severe it is and what percentage of the body it covers. Here, we use a lot of silvadene cream for smaller areas, I have never dealt with burns covering a large area.
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Depending on how bad a burn - first degree (red): alohe, cool water.  Just hurts.  second degree alohe/medicated creme loose bandage.  third degree (blistered) go to the doctor
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1) Remove the heat source, and remove the clothing\n2) Use flowing cold water to cool down the burnt member\n3) If severe pain is present, then some pain killers may be administered\n4) Surgical operation, and some plastic surgery is needed most of the time. New trends are available in this field, summarized as "planting" some tissues from other non-affected members
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those are the white blood cells clotting up together to create a scab layer to keep the wound from getting infected.
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I just love asking daft questions!\n\nI am a chemist not a dermatologist unfortunately, but I'l give it a go! \n\nWhen skin is burned all the cells which contain the relevant chemicals to maintain the up-keep of living tissue are destroyed-permanantly. Skin is a very complex organ, however damaged skin cells are restored by lots of reactions harmoneously occuring similtaneously, one of which is ascorbic acid(vitiman C) acting as an enzyme for the reaction between hydroxyprolase and hydroxylysine which are the foundation of collagen tissue which builds and restores skin. \n\nIn other words, increasing your water and vitiman C intake may help restore the cells not permanatly damaged and will give you better looking skin in the long run,hope that helps you a little!
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Ummmm, because you ate licorce ice cream? You put black lipstick on them? They got frostbite (call your doc STAT)?  You have poor circulation in them and they have become necrosed (dead tissue.. in this case, call your doc STAT... you have some serious problems)? Your are not breathing well and your oxygen levels are low (here again, you need medical attention STAT)? You have African DNA in you?\n\nDoes any of the above help?
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I have worked in urgent cares for many years. When it is first burnt you only put siladene on it and nothing else.\n\nYou say it is dry which means it is healing. At this time I would treat the pain with an over the counter pain reliever and do not allow her to pick at the scab. Things like neosporine and the like can prevent the wound from healing properly.
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Necrosis means dying-dead tissue regardless of whether it is plant of animal, and typically is seen as a darkening of tissue, esp if it is "meat-flesh-muscle-skin"  (Necro means BLACK-dead.) However cells of plants or animals tissues-organs die naturally throughout life when they reach the end of their natural life cycle.  If an animal is single celled and dies,that is its END. \n\nWhen a patch of visible tissue looks dead-dying macroscopically, we call it "necrotic."  Necrosis is common in gangrene, a bacterial infection microscopically, for example. Necrosis may also imply a "spreading" of the diseased-dying tissues amongst the healthy cells which are being OVERTAKEN-PROCESSED by the putrification microscopic organisms of nature, as is common in gangrene of diabetes (or non-diabetes) after neuropathy increases loss of feeling and thus an injured limb has no feeling and the wounds natural healing does not take place and the microbes begin to take advantage and get the upper hand. The high blood sugar makes it ideal for the putrification microbes to grow and prosper and speed the process of "parasitism" of tissues we don't want to die so that it occurs faster than cell multiplication necessary for healing.  Basically if cell death is FASTER than cell mitosis-healing,then we would call that necrosis. It may or not be "rotting" per se.  Rotting is a "slang" non-technical term usually ascribed to meat-foodstuffs putrifying by bacteria-fungus.  It describes the NATURAL microscopic process of putrification by natures laws, but we may not like it or think of it as "good," THE MAJORITY of organisms-cells of this planet are involved with microscopic putrification processes (bacteria and fungia specifically) and it helps to clean up and recycle the micro and macromolecules of all organic material of life so that new-fresh tissues can be made from the old dead stuff.  Without necrosis and putrification the planet would be overrun with piles of garbage! A compost pile is the perfect example of putrification-rotting process that we like and do not associate with disease, but macroscopically the composte pile is not any different from necrotic meat.  Putrid refers to the smell of putrification and is accompanied by specific gaseous by-products these putrification microbes make while they are doing their clean up work.  Warm-humid weather makes the process of putrification-necrosis happen faster.  The tropics are an ideal place for wounds to become necrotic faster, for the body or compost piles to rot faster.  Hot humid days in NY york during a garbage strike are horrible examples too.  As global warming increases it will increase-move the amount of tropical zones on this planet and thus putrification and necrosis "diseases" of plants or animal tissues. The microbes are having a great time and are thriving while we think it is "bad," but we need these processes! BTW, the more preservatives we use in our food, the slower the putrification process becomes. Some say that the natural rottingof human cadaveris slower if the person who owned that vehicle before death ate a lot of preservtives.  Also, some corpses insealed coffins putrify slower than innon-sealed coffins.  Some laws require coffins to be sealed so that the "disease: organisms don't get in the soil and spread. How fast will your body rot after death? Have you eated a lot of preservatives?Will you be buried-cremated? Will the coffin be sealed-unsealed?  Will your body macromolecules be easily recycled back into quickly or more slowly.  If you die in a hot jungle your body may be gone quickly, esp if flesh eating scavengers like beetles get to it before they find your body.\n\nPersonally, I had part of my plantar fascia on the bottom of my rt foot become necrotic after I stepped on a toothpick and they could not find it and get it out after 6 hours in the ER and several xrays, which
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sounds like ingrown hairs.  they can raise like a pimple, get puss like a pimple, or fill with blood.  if they pop, they can bleed and it can be tramatic to the skin.  saying they went black, usually is just due to the blood in them or drying blood.  try soaking in a hot tub when you get them and GENTLY exfoliating the area.
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An ulcer is basically a hole, so I'm not sure what you are describing.  What color is it?  Does it actually look like tissue with a hole in it?  Is it pink, or an off white solid mass like the little thing you can squeeze out of a corn kernal?  More info would be helpful.  I have a few notions as to what it is, but need more info.  Truly, though, a visit with your physician would be more informative than getting an answer from Y!A.
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Are you asking about flame (as in fire), or phlegm (mucous), or what?
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Whewwww, makes me hot and cold at the same time just thinking about it, good question though. Probably freezing, it would take longer but the idea of my flesh burning off is kind of disgusting. Guess the smoke from the fire would kill me first, but not factoring that into the equation.