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7 Ways to Treat Skin Scalded with Hot Water, One of Them with Milk

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7 Ways to Treat Skin Scalded with Hot Water, One of Them with Milk How to treat skin scalded with hot water (credit: freepik)

Kapanlagi.com - When accidentally scalded with hot water, it will certainly make you panic because of the resulting injury. Not to mention the burning sensation caused by scalding hot water that feels painful. Burns themselves are characterized by severe damage to the skin, causing infected skin cells to die. So it takes about 1-2 weeks to heal.

However, burns also have different levels depending on the depth of the affected skin. If you experience a mild burn, the following tips are suitable for treating skin scalded with hot water. Well, there are several ways to treat the skin scalded with hot water that you can do at home without having to go to the doctor.

What are they? Instead of being curious, let's just take a look at the following review.

 

 

1. Aliri dengan Air

You need to know, the first step you need to take when your skin is scalded with hot water is to flush the wound with cold water for about 20 minutes. In addition, you can also compress the burn caused by scalding water using a cloth soaked in cold water for 5-15 minutes.

This method aims to relieve pain and swelling. However, it is important to remember not to compress the burn too often or for too long with cold water as it can cause the burn to become irritated.

2. Aloe Vera

Aloe vera indeed has many benefits for health. In addition, the cooling properties of aloe vera can quickly treat burns. Aloe vera can also be used to treat inflammation on the skin and prevent swelling. Applying aloe vera gel to the burned skin is also recommended over using ice cubes.

3. Lavender Oil

Lavender oil is one of the oils that can treat scalded skin. This is because lavender oil has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. Lavender oil also helps cell growth, so wounds heal quickly.

To use it, you can mix two to three drops of lavender oil with olive oil. This is to avoid the burning effect on the wound. Use it regularly to help the wound heal quickly.

4. Honey

Honey is one of the natural ingredients that can treat burns. Honey can kill bacteria that appear due to burns from hot water. This is because it contains anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and antibacterial substances.

Treating wounds with honey will reduce the burning sensation and promote faster healing. Simply apply it regularly to the burned area of the skin.

5. Milk

If you usually treat burns from hot water with toothpaste or ice cubes, you should start leaving that behind. Because both of these ingredients are feared to cause irritation to the skin. It is better for you to use pure milk to treat burns caused by hot water.

The high fat and protein content in pure milk can reduce the burning sensation on the skin. The method is quite easy, you just need to soak the skin affected by hot water in milk for about 15 minutes.

6. Green Tea

Another natural way to treat burns from hot water is by using green tea. Green tea has anti-inflammatory properties that are good for speeding up the wound healing process.

To do this, first you brew the green tea with hot water. If it feels warm enough, soak or use a cloth dipped in green tea directly on the skin that is burned by hot water. Do this at least until the blistered skin slowly recovers.

7. Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple cider vinegar is often used to treat skin problems, one of which is treating scalded skin. Apple cider vinegar contains antibacterial properties that will help prevent infection on blistered skin caused by scalding water. At the beginning of use, you may feel a little stinging, but this only happens temporarily and will subside on its own.

Those are some ways to treat scalded skin using ingredients that are easily found around you. Hope it's useful.

(kpl/dtm)

Disclaimer: This translation from Bahasa Indonesia to English has been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
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