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Traditional medicine offers various options for emergency care and therapy for thermal burns - for example, use oil, honey and even urine. We decided to check if these three methods are effective.
Use uric lotions to treat burns Recommend Both units of the Russian Emergencies Ministry and bloggers on the platform "Zen". Experience of this treatment actively divided Service users questions And answers, there is a description of this method and on entertainment Portals And forums. No less popular method - use vegetable oil And dairy products. Often on the Internet you can Meet And advice Treat burns with honey.
Burns divided on chemical, radiation, electric and thermal. Also sometimes Select Burns from friction and cold burns. In this analysis, we will only talk about thermal. It is customary to divide them into four degree - depending on the severity of the lesion:
I degree: the epidermis is affected (upper layer skin), the surface has blushed and hurts;
II degree: the epidermis and partially dermis (middle layer) are affected, the skin is bright red and swollen, blisters appeared;
III degree: the two upper layers of the skin are completely affected, the deepest layer can be affected - subcutaneous tissue, the burn looks black, yellow or white, often there is no pain, since the nerve endings are also damaged;
IV degree: the deepest and most heavy burn that can cover not only all layers of the skin, but also muscles, ligaments and bones. This type of burn is potentially life -threatening.
No self -medication methods will be effective for burns III and especially IV degree, in this case necessary Seek medical help immediately. However, American burn association And WHO It is recommended to consult a doctor with any burns, regardless of their size and severity.
Oil

WHO Recommends do not use oil as first aid for burns, the same opinion adheres to And the American burn association. This Related With the fact that it can delay heat (and in the case of a burn it is important, on the contrary, to cool damaged skin), as well as contain bacteria, which in this case fall into the wound. Oil can only be Warm up situation.
As for the use of oil to care for the wound, here it can bear fruit. In 2014, researchers from the Sushzky University of Medical Sciences (Iran) conducted experiment: 60 rats were inflicted on the III degree, then they were divided into five groups and the wounds were treated with sea buckthorn oil, olive oil, and a mixture of these oils, a mixture of these oils, Sulfadiazin silver (SSD), widely used for the treatment of burns, and saline (in the control group). Within 28 days, scientists observed the healing of burns. Rats were restored the fastest, whose wounds were treated with sea buckthorn and olive oils or their mixture. This is due to the fact that sea buckthorn oil possesses antibacterial and antioxidant properties And Promotes restoration of skin tissues (due to the content of unsaturated fatty acids in it-omega-6 and omega-7). Olive oil, in turn, Contains Polyphenols (compounds with antibacterial and anti -inflammatory properties). Therefore, both separately, and together these oils were effective to accelerate the healing of burns.
In Turkey, they carried out experiment, during which argan oil was introduced into burn wounds on rats of rats. It turned out that it is really effective: compared with the control group of the wounds of rats that received injections with such oil, healed faster. However, such treatment began 24 hours after receiving a burn, and the oil was introduced subcutaneously, and not just applied to a fresh wound.
Chinese biologists Used crocodile oil (yes, it really Get it From the adipose tissues of these reptiles) in a similar experiment, but they applied the drug directly to the wound and began such treatment quickly, and not after a while. The use of crocodile oil accelerated and the treatment of burns of the II degree.
At the same time, it is worth talking about essential oils separately. Researchers from the University of Charles Wrestled (Australia) Studied Among other methods, the use of lavender essential oil for the treatment of wounds, in particular burns. They treated wounds on the backs of rats with different substances, and then compared the healing process with the control group (the burns included in the animals were not treated). Lavender oil did not show any significant effect.
Did not show the effectiveness and essential oil of tea tree - to such conclusion Scientists of the University of Queensland (Australia) came. They compared the healing of deep burns in pigs, which made dressings impregnated with this oil with a control group. It turned out that this oil did not contribute to either healing or disinfecting the wounds.
Thus, the creamy, sunflower or olive oils that are common in everyday life are not only ineffective, but also harmful to first aid for burns, and leading medical organizations do not recommend using these substances in this situation. Nevertheless, some oils (for example, olive and sea buckthorn) can be used to accelerate the healing of burns, but only when the skin has already cooled down. There are studies confirming that other much less popular oils (for example, argan and crocodile) can really accelerate healing, while essential oils (for example, lavender and tea tree) have not demonstrated any efficiency. In any case, if you are not sure of the action of a specific type of oil, it is better not to use it so as not to aggravate the injury. More unambiguous conclusions can be drawn when a larger number of quality studies will be conducted in authoritative medical organizations.
Half truth
Urine

We were not able to detect a single authoritative study that would confirm that the processing of a burn of urine has any effectiveness as first aid or therapy. In the recommendations, not a single authoritative medical organization has advice to use for burns-even I degree, when the integrity of the skin is not broken-something similar.
Exists opinionthat the urine is sterile, which means that it can be washed with burns or other wounds. However, this statement is erroneous. In the bladder (and hence in the urine) Contained A large number of bacteria, even in a healthy person, not to mention those who have various urinary tract infections. If you apply urine to an open wound or fresh burn, there is a risk of infection, so it is not only ineffective, but also dangerous.
Besides, temperature fresh urine is usually equal to body temperature, that is, 36.6–37 ° C, while The surface of the skin A few degrees are cooler. As we have already found out, the place of burn needs to be cooled, and not at all warm, so pouring a more warm liquid on burned skin is not a better idea.
Urine by 95% consists of From the water, among other components - urea, inorganic salts, creatinine. There is a study confirming that urea Maybe To contribute to the faster healing of wounds and burns, however, we are talking about the urea that was synthesized from nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon dioxide in the sterile conditions of the laboratory, and not about the human urine containing, as we have already found out, a lot of bacteria. In addition, these conclusions were published in the scientific article of 1936, and we could not find more modern authoritative studies that would confirm them.
Urea is wide Used in renovation cosmetics as a moisturizing agent, but its Consult Do not apply to irritated skin or open wounds. Apparently, this recommendation is true for burns of the II degree and higher.
Not true
Honey
