Cooking day before Thanksgiving I ended up burning myself. The next day it was a blister about inch long, 1/2 inch wide, and 1/4 inch raised. So a good size. It’s driving me crazy right now because it still hurts to touch and it’s hard to type and use my mouse at work. It’s also gross looking. I feel like I pop it the pressure will go away. Any burn experts out there?
If you pop it be prepared for an infection
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Leave it. It’s protecting you from infection and it’ll go down soon. When it does, I’d recommend keeping the newly-exposed skin covered with a bandage and have at least an antibiotic ointment on it. If you can get Silvadene cream (silver sulfadiazine; you can find it OTC) then use that instead of antibiotic ointment.
If it’s causing you pain and discomfort, I’d pop that sucker. There are enough ways to prevent infection. Antibiotic ointments have been mentioned, and I have had good results from antibiotic bandages.
And plus, popping blisters is gross fun!
Drain it. Sterilize a pin or needle w/ heat or alcohol, wipe down the area with alcohol and tunnel into the blister from outside the perimeter. Work the juice out and bandage with a topical antibiotic ointment.
Drain it. Sterilize a pin or needle w/ heat or alcohol, wipe down the area with alcohol and tunnel into the blister from outside the perimeter. Work the juice out and bandage with a topical antibiotic ointment.
Yep, drain it before it blows out.Leave the skin in place and let it dry out.
If it’s causing you pain and discomfort, I’d pop that sucker. There are enough ways to prevent infection. Antibiotic ointments have been mentioned, and I have had good results from antibiotic bandages.
And plus, popping blisters is gross fun!
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Medically I say leave it, but real life says drain it.
The skin over the blister is dead and is going to peel off eventually, so be ready with some triple abx and a bandage to keep it clean.
Leave it. fluid will absorb and it will heal faster/better.
Cooking day before Thanksgiving I ended up burning myself. The next day it was a blister about inch long, 1/2 inch wide, and 1/4 inch raised. So a good size. It’s driving me crazy right now because it still hurts to touch and it’s hard to type and use my mouse at work. It’s also gross looking. I feel like I pop it the pressure will go away. Any burn experts out there?
An old army and backpacking trick is to string a piece of dental floss on a needle, then lance the blister while leaving the dental floss in the entry/exit holes. Drain the blister and leave the dental floss in the blister. Rub on antibotic ointment and perhaps add a bandaide to secure the floss. The blister fluid will seal the entry/exit holes around the floss and the blister skin remains intact to protect the new skin.
I ended up just draining it. I made the tiniest prick with a needle at the end of the blister. It’s taking forever to get all the fluid out. I gave up when my wrist started hurting from holding my computer mouse funny from it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_burn#/media/File%3AElectrical_burn_on_hand.jpg
This exactly how my blister looks and same location except mine isn’t electrical burn.
I’ve been there. Not an electrical burn either, but the second-degree burn was all over my left hand and wrist. Leave the blistered skin on as best you can (protect it with bandages). While that blistered skin is still there, I’d still gently cover it with antibiotic ointment or, better, silvadene (prescription strength would be best but it’s also available over the counter). Maintain that treatment even after the blistered skin sloughs off. After it sloughs off, keep the freshly exposed skin protected (bandage and ointment/silvadene) until it’s healed (you’ll know when it’s healed - the freshly-exposed skin will be raw, pink and granular until it heals over and kind of lightly scabs over enough to no longer need such protection). After that, protect the scar from the sun as best you can because the scar tissue can become discolored. (I bought myself one of those sun sleeves off of Amazon.)
For whatever it’s worth, I followed all the above advice from my Dr. when I was burned and it took maybe three to four weeks before I was left with just fresh scar tissue. I currently have only slight scarring on my hand and wrist (you can’t really see it unless I point it out). The skin is merely kind of freckled and you can faintly see the outline of the scarred area. I just rubbed the spot that was most badly burned and realized that it’s a tad sensitive to touch but nothing too bad.
Best of luck.