How long does a burn hurt?

this is funny maybe but my mother-in-law reads a plot for burns - it helps us, they say we just have to believe
my husband was scalded by boiling water in the bathhouse - there weren’t even any blisters
if you want, I’ll write, but this is probably for the future, because you need to start talking right away

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Hurray, it’s already morning and I’m alive!
Thank God my hand doesn’t hurt, but it’s terrible. the fingers are crimson in color, with white spots and small blisters in some places.

they said it was in vain to do it with snow, because... You could get frostbite. but I didn’t think anything of it and it didn’t matter, since the pain went away, but it hurt like crazy))

When I was a student, I accidentally dropped a boiling kettle of water on my leg in a dormitory. An ambulance was called. While she was driving, the pain was terrible. And I stood under water - it didn’t help. And the ambulance arrived and wrapped my leg in a bandage with lidocaine (this is a painkiller in ampoules). The pain suddenly subsided. True, then I still treated it and went for bandages, but it didn’t hurt so much.

There are such things - cold accumulators. They are either provided in the freezer or purchased for thermal bags and stored in the freezer. Real case: I was cooking something in the oven in a cast iron frying pan with the same handle. I had to rotate the pan to ensure even baking. The devil pulled me to grab the handle with my bare hand! Ahh! Hurt! Very! I really wanted to put my hand in the cold. In general, the correct reflex. Although there is no longer contact with the hot, the process on the skin and tissues continues for some time, therefore, in order to stop the heating process, it is necessary to counteract cooling. I opened the freezer and remembered these things. She put her hand to the battery. And she kept it like that from time to time. When the hand lay on it, the pain was not felt, as soon as it was taken away, the pain began to return. On the palm there was a terrible red stripe in the shape of a frying pan handle. The heat was merciless. In general, I went to bed with this battery. She kept her hand on him all night. You will not believe! In the morning nothing hurt! Not a hint! Only after a while the skin peeled off a little. And just recently, I put the pan on the electric stove. And here comes the devil again! It raised doubts that the stove was not heating. I grabbed the pan with both hands so that I put my little fingers on the electric pancake. B. I immediately remembered about the cold storage batteries. She sat down and put her little fingers on them. As soon as I felt frostbite, I removed it, then put it back again. And so on several times. The pain went away, there were no burns left. After a few days the skin peeled off a little. If you don’t have such things, you can replace them with frozen foods. Only food melts faster, and batteries hold frost for a long time. In both cases I did not apply anything to the burns; there was no need. It healed without problems, as if by magic.

All types of burn injuries are accompanied by pain - this is a scientifically proven fact. But why do burns, unlike other household injuries, hurt especially badly? And the main question: how to reduce the pain from a burn in a victim? This article will be devoted to these issues.

The mechanism of pain from a burn

The main symptom of a burn is acute pain, which is a normal reaction of the body. The impulse about tissue damage is transmitted from the burn surface of the body to the brain and is accompanied by reciprocal pain sensations, which forces the victim to intuitively get rid of the dangerous source, the so-called “self-preservation instinct” is triggered. This kind of pain in the first minutes can plunge a person into a state of painful shock, which is accompanied by inappropriate behavior and lack of understanding of what is happening.

With superficial burns with preservation of the papillary layer of the skin and deep formations, skin organelles: glands, nerve endings-receptors, the pain syndrome is more pronounced than with deep burns, when the pain-perceiving apparatus of the skin dies. With deep and extensive burns, dysfunction of vital organs and systems comes to the fore due to a decrease in blood volume, hypoxia, anemia and dysfunction of the central nervous system. Only after correction of these disorders is the sensory part of the pain syndrome restored. Therefore, if we talk about the strength of pain, it is initially stronger with superficial burns.

With deep and extensive burns, the victim experiences burn shock. Burn shock is a general reaction of the body to a super-strong irritant in the form of painful irritation of the skin nerve endings by a traumatic agent. In addition to the pain component, the triggers for the development of burn shock are the loss of a large amount of the liquid part of the blood (plasma) through skin defects and the entry into the body of decay products of damaged tissues.

How to relieve pain from a burn?

In case of burn pain shock, anti-shock therapy begins with pain relief with narcotic and non-narcotic analgesics in combination with antihistamines. If the effect is insufficient or pain reappears, re-use of these drugs is allowed. The next injection should be delayed as much as possible (keep at least a 3-4 hour interval), but at the same time the pain should not be brought to high intensity. Simply put: painkillers are administered as needed.

For 1-2 degree burns, cold water will help quickly relieve pain. Cooling with water helps reduce pain and localize burn injury.

It is known that after a burn, the content of p-endorphins in the brain increases, which are endogenous neuropeptides that bind to enkephalin (opiate) receptors in the brain and have an analgesic effect. In this regard, some time after the injury, the intensity of pain decreases somewhat. For this reason, as well as because of slow absorption into the blood, oral administration of tablet drugs that have the ability to reduce the intensity of pain (analgin, tempalgin, etc.) is relatively ineffective for burns. Most often, analgesics of the opium group (morphine, omnopon), their synthetic substitutes (promedol), and non-narcotic analgesics are used for pain relief from burns.

Compresses with local anesthetics are also used to relieve pain on large 1-2 degree burns. Lidocaine, dicaine and pyromecaine are good for wound pain relief.