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i just burned my hand, defrosting freezer, put a bowl of boiling water in and spilt it all over the back of my hand! ds has woken up, won't let me put him down and only had time to run hand under cold water for 2min or so. feels like its on fire! what will happen if i ignore it?!

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get some frozen peas out and put them on, jb, if ds won't let you go away!

It will probably blister.

It will blister badly and maybe scar.

Can you stand holding him and run it under the kitchen tap?

Or let him cry a bit while you sort yourself out - your need is greater than his!

Poor you! Hope it's better soon.

frost bite, go black and drop off. then the mice will eat it and... - it will - honestly - it will!!

what? why are you laughing?

only joking. It will blister.

peas in packet btw, not loose, or they'll fall on the floor.

(Sorry, not being sarky!)

no, one frozen pea should do it ........

Don't know how old DS is - but he CAN wait - get your hand under the running water (cold) for 10 minutes.

oh no! there is no ice or anything, ate up all contents of the freezer before defrost so not a single frozen pea in the house! oh woe is me...ouch!

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JB, definitely leave him to cry a bit - can you put a lullaby light on or something for him? What does he like best? Let him do that while you sort your hand out! Unless it's being carried round...! Then he can do his second favourite thing!

o.k how long have i been gone?! performed acrobatic feat and rocked ds to sleep whilst holding hand under running water, phew!

Nine minutes - if it throbs again in the night, do it again. Burns and scalds are horrible things.

...could have put him down but failed to mention have headache too and he is very very very LOUD in protest!

think i'm gona go, starting to hurt again, how annoying! cheers hm and everyone.

Poor you - what a crummy night! Hope he sleeps now - well done on getting him back to sleep whilst holding your hand under the tap!

Get back to work now HM.

I'm at home now, B99!

Am I going to see the word twatshank mistakenly featuring in any of your work?

That refers to another thread BTW. I'm not being rude. Quite inappropriate language for a first aid thread

No, B99, you won't. I am a pro-fess-ion-al. Honest, guv

get some aloe vera gel if you can - helps with healing - health food shop usually a good source.

update: no blistering, well some of my skin came off whilst running under cold tap some time around 2am last night...just a little bit...sorry, didn't mean to anyone with my graphicness! its alright now, feels like a graze.

at least you didn't burn your fingertips because they had become stuck fast to the inside of a freezer! That happened to a friend of mine, no-one around to pour boiling water to detach them, she had to pull them off herself, hurts like hell apparently....

when i was young my mum spcificaly told me not to lick the ice cube tray, and as you can gues i did it and then got so scared i ripped it strieght off along with all the sking off my tounge now that did hurt!