What do you do when you get burned?

Question:

if you touch a hot pan or something..

Answers:
THIS TIP IS A LIFESAVER FOR BURNS - Almost literally:

Before reading the rest of this, go get your bottle of CAYENNE PEPPER, wet the burned area (so it sticks well), and cover all burned areas in a thick layer of the cayenne. it may not work at this point because it's been so long since the burn, but it could still help reduce blistering and pain.

In the future, the INSTANT you get any kind of burn, do cayenne pepper--nothing else. No cold water (except to rinse off the potato gunk and get your hand clean of debris. but cold water only helps me when my hand is IN it, and my hand hurts like mad again soon as I take it out regardless of how long I left it in), no burn cream. they're not effective, and not necessary (for fun you could give yourself a fresh, scorching burn now that you know about cayenne, and use this trick, and notice how it's completely healed after cayenne.......... just kidding, don't intentionally hurt yourself! But DO use the trick for future burns, when they're fresh!). Read on for my story.

I squeezed a potato in the microwave once to see if it was soft yet, and it imploded, shoving right up under my fingernails and everything. When the potato burst, I had my mom and sister with me at the time. I was reminded that CAYENNE PEPPER (remember that: small cuts, burns, everything. it's like a cure-all) works well for burns. For the first time ever, I tried using cayenne on a burn (I'd used it on cuts dozens of times: it removes the infection, and makes it heal almost within hours sometimes, depending on severity).

When You get a burn (of any kind):

Wet the burn area (to allow it to stick). Immediately (within a couple minutes if you can) blanket the burn (ANY surface area that MAY have been burned) in CAYENNE PEPPER. Just leave it on for 10-15 minutes, and don't get impatient. Remember to do it ASAP--the longer you wait, the more chance the burn has to set in.

When I burned my hand (fingertips, actually) on the squished potato, it was crazy-painful--I could hardly stand. Like I said, potato chunk even squished itself down underneath my fingernails. I put cayenne pepper on all burned areas, but didn't get it sufficiently under my nails in time. All areas of my hand/fingertips that were covered with cayenne for a while were 100% healed within minutes (by the time I removed the cayenne) and never had residual pain. The very tip of two fingers, right beneath my fingernails, blistered by the next day and had large, bulbous bubbles on each that were irritating and painful for two weeks. That blistered area was the only burned area I did NOT get cayenne to, and it was the only one to remain unhealed and remind me of my stupidity with the potato (all areas were burned equally. so the tips weren't any worse than lower on my fingers). I've done cold water and other things like everyone else suggested, and NOTHING works as well as Cayenne pepper.

Trust me: Since then, I've now used cayenne a few more times on burns. Most recently, only yesterday, I pulled a hot cup of water from the microwave. but, the cup itself was fairly cool, so I tested the water with my finger. Big mistake! The cup must be heat-absorbent, because the water scorched! It hurt like crazy, and then I remembered cayenne. I wetted my finger, smeared cayenne paste all over it, and just went about making dinner while avoiding touching things with that finger. 10 minutes later, I rinse it off, and my finger felt no pain. I totally forgot I ever burned myself yesterday until responding to your question :)

P.S. If it's REALLY bad, and the cayenne doesn't help cuz it's been so long, go see a doctor! I don't know what the doc could do if even cayenne isn't working. but maybe there's more.

UPDATE:

WARNING - I totally forgot to mention this, but if you do use Cayenne on burns (and especially cuts) it may burn/hurt (not in a lasting-after-you-remove-it-se. , but a hurts-while-it's-on sense). I've never had cayenne burn/hurt (kinda like rubbing alcohol on an infected cut) on a burned area. but when I've used it on cuts, it DOES burn--a lot. Get it on the cut fast (the burn takes 5-10 seconds to set in and be noticeable), slap a bandaid on it (so it's not messy and you can continue doing things), and leave it for a while so it has a chance to extract the stuff. I've left it on as little as 30 minutes or as long as overnight (for cuts). or as little as 10 minutes to as long as 25 minutes for burns. Don't freak out if it does start hurting, because it's cayenne and therefore is bound to. The hurt will go away once you remove all cayenne, usually within 10-20 minutes for me (if I cleaned it off well enough), and if you had an infection before (and the wound was still open enough to allow penetration when you put cayenne on it), your infection should be totally gone if cayenne was left on long enough. and you could dump gallons of rubbing alcohol on it and feel no pain from that anymore (cayenne has been the only way I've ever found that actually makes rubbing alcohol NOT hurt. because the more infected your cut, the more painful the rubbing alcohol, so when infection is withdrawn by cayenne, it's pain-free. whereas cayenne is more or less indiscriminately painful while it's on a cut). I don't like the feeling of cayenne when it's on, but it sure does help. Oh, and of course, consult your doctor and all that, don't use if you're allergic or suspect you're allergic, etc. I've never had or known anyone to have any problems, complications or worsening of wounds/burns when they use cayenne (it's a natural plant-product, not a concoction, so there's just the one item to consider: cayenne), but I imagine there's always a first time. So.. yeah. Just use with the realization that
A. I'm NOT a doctor, just part of a growing group of people who find cayenne more effective than everything else out there, and B. _I_ have never known anything bad to come of it and have only seen good, but that doesn't mean YOU won't, so maybe consult a doctor/do research/find out if you're allergic, or keep a friend at hand the first time or two you do it (on cuts, anyway).

rinse it with room tempature water and apply an antibiotic ointment like neosporin and cover it with a bandaid.

Cold water, and plenty of it. No ice, no weird home remedies. No ointments. Ointments are greasy, that'll insulate it and cause the heat that's under your skin to keep burning.

Just water. After that, you can wrap a bandage around it lightly to keep it from getting infected, but don't wrap it too tight.

scream and cuss

YELL

I guess you burned your hand.
Keep it in icy water(I mean cold but no ice) and move your attention from the pain.
The icy water will remove the pain and you not thinking about it will make you forget about it.
It worked with me!
Once I burned my entire hand (second degree) and the burning sensation was so awful, only holding my hand in icy water helped. I had to do it for more then 24 hours, because the burn was so severe, the moment I was taking my hand out of the cold water I would feel as I would have a hot iron over my hand. So I had to find a comfortable position to sleep on my sofa and have my hand sink into a pot of icy water.
I did not sleep too much, but I was happy I wasn't feeling the burning sensation anymore.
Nothing else worked.
I hope you will find relief.Good luck!

Do you have an aloe plant? That is the very best thing for burns. Just cut off a piece, slice it lengthwise and apply it directly to the burn - leave in on for half and hour. You can take it off for a while, but keep applying fresh aloe for the first 2 days.

if it is on you hand and blistering and large consult a doctor now..

if it is small and blistering i mean small. on your hand cold water and a breathable gauze for the 1st few hours because it needs to air.. then try more water and let it breathe.. at night use a bandaid and some neosporain and rotate between letting it breath and bandaids

if its mid size with no blistering and all then its not second degree and apply the same directions as above

if you have any concerns best bet is go to the doc.

i just had a second degree burn on my wrist from a left on curling iron.. still hurts a little but i ran it under water and after an hour i put ice on it forgetting you aren't supposed to use ice!

cold water on it

Use butter it helps with the pain/..No lie.
Next time use a pan holder FOOL

if it's blistered or the skin has peeled off-then make a trip to the emergency room. you'll need a special cream called silvadene that you can only get from a dr.

otherwise just rinse it under cold water then wash with mild soap. apply aloe vera gel or neosporin and cover with gauze if you are going to be covering it with clothing. keep it open to air as much as possible-this will help it heal.

for pain take ibuprofen. take 200-400mg every 6 hours but no more than 1200mg in 24 hours.

I run my hand or whatever has gotten burned under cold water for a few minutes and then I apply Meleluca ointment to the area. I read somewhere that you can put toothpaste on a burn also

run cold water over it and then wrap it up in banage but not to tight cause it might stick to your burn

put it under cold water or ice it

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