Help burn!

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I've just spilled a flask of boiling water over my hand. Getting prepped for night feeds with my 6 week old (I use the tommeebtippee flask water to warm up expressed breast milk. I couldn't have closed the lid properly and bent down to pick a towel off the floor and the water tipped out over the back of my hand. I've had it under cold tap since. It hurts like buggery! Any tips on how to help? I am in sole care of my baby as my dh has been out and came home drunk.

Oh bless you, you really need to keep the burn under very cold running water for at least 20 mins...if you have to feed the baby, chuck something in a bucket from the freezer and dunk arm in there while you feed. Please keep a close eye on it though as infection can very easily set in especially with blisters. If it starts peeling/bubbling/blistering, you need to get yourself to A&E. Also get yourself a new DH, he can't be going out on the piss with a tiny newborn at home!

Oh believe me,I'll be ripping through the husband tomorrow. I've had in water for a good 40 mins now, it's blistering between thumb and fore finger. It's bloody agony, I'm dreading the next feed.

Sorry but that's not correct. Tepid water is what you need, for 20 mins. If it blisters then don't pop the blister and you may have to go to minor injuries (if you have such a thing) tomorrow. I did the same thing but with a hot water bottle, it burst and burnt the underside of my breast. I had to go to minor injuries every other day for a week. If you can wrap a wet towel around the hand after you have kept it in the water. Wake DH up too and explain.

Don't put any kind of cream on it. Good luck 👍

Also keep an eye on your temperature, I was given antibiotics because of infection so it would be definitely worth going to see someone tomorrow.

Put it under cold running water, the tap doesn't need to be on hard full flow, just gently running but enough to be a decent flow. For at least 20 minutes or until the skin /burn is completely cooled, whichever is longer. You need to take all the heat out of it, or it will continue cooking the flesh (literally). Don't put anything on it.

And yes, A&E if any significant blistering, peeling swelling etc. By taxi if necessary, you shouldn't drive with a tiny newborn & a burnt hand.

And re DH, he needs to adjust his attitude!

I'm still under running water. Baby will need fed in around an hour. It was our friends 40th, she had a garden party. We were all round at theirs, I left with the baby after an hour I did encourage dh to stay but asked him not to have any more than a couple of beers.

The blister isn't big thankfully, but my god the pain!

Oh shit, that looks painful! Keep up with the running water, cold water dunking, whatever you can do. I do think you need to have that looked at though so get yourself down to small injuries/A&E in the morning the leave hungover DH to deal with baby.

I'm not a medical professional, but as MrsFormidable said, get it checked

Oh that really does look so sore. Keep on with the cold water and look at the NHS advice regarding potential use of cling film. I think you'll need to be seen by a doctor ASAP tomorrow as it's fairly large. Tonight would be better but with your DH being drunk, that makes it tricky. www.nhs.uk/conditions/burns-and-scalds/treatment/

If you can't get the pain under control then you need to phone 111 for advice xx

I have no medical knowledge but I think you might need to be extra careful with burns on the hand. At the very least I’d phone out of hours.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/burns-and-scalds/

Wrap the area in cling film - tricky on your own it stops the air getting to it and you can still put it in cold water although will prob need to replace it.

Once the heat is out of it keep it wrapped in fresh cling film. As it keeps it clean and prevents fibres sticking to the blister.

OP the advice for a burn to the hand that is blistering is to get it seen to quickly. Either a&e or minor injuries unit. It needs to be assessed as it's likely to be a second-degree burn, which means that deeper layers of the skin are affected. It's also more at risk of infection, so needs to be treated properly.

Tonight would be ideal, but if you cannot go now please do go first thing in the morning. As others have said, you can wrap it in cling film, and do not use ice/ice water or creams on it.

How is it this morning op?

How are you today OP?

The pain has died down but the blister has grown. I called Nhs 24 they told me if the blistered area gets larger I've to go to a&e. I don't have a minor injuries unit close to me. It's not as bad as I feared it would be thankfully.
But my god it was painful. I was awake all night with it (and baby dd). I passed baby to dh at 8am and slept until 3:30pm! ThAnks for helping me out this morning.

This is it currently

I'd go get that looked at to be honest.

Especially given the size of the blister.

Ooooh honey, that does still look very sore. I hope DH has been suitably chastised for not being in a helpful state...

He has redeemed himself. He took the baby at 9am and I went to bed, I slept until 3:30pm!
He done all the house work, dinner and bath time time with 5 ur old ds all whilst I was sat on the sofa eating biscuits and snuggling dd.

That's good. I've been thinking about you all day as it just looked so sore and I really felt for you. Slightly TMI but once when DS was tiny, my OH had a big works do and was useless/very drunk that night. I got struck down by a bad case of Norovirus in the middle of the night and had to deal. It was awful so I kind of gave an idea of how hard last night was for you and can appreciate how strong you had to be xxx

If its larger than a 50p piece, you need to go to minor injuries or a and e.