A 46-year-old member asked:
how can i quickly cure burned skin?
1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in
Dr. Heidi Fowler answered
Psychiatry 25 years experience
Place skin: immediately under cold water. How bad is the burn? What area of the body is it on? What percentage of you is burned? What is your status for tetanus shot?
2059 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
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A 20-year-old female asked:
My skin look like burned?
2 doctor answers • 4 doctors weighed in
Dr. Ankush Bansal answered
Internal Medicine 17 years experience
?: Please ask a specific question. How does it look exactly? When did it start? Where on your body?
5362 viewsAnswered Jan 5, 2019
A 35-year-old member asked:
What causes the whitish blue color on burned skin?
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Dr. Harry Greenberg answered
Dermatology 27 years experience
Dead skin: If the skin is necrosed or dead, it may appear discolored as you mention. Also whatever burned the skin could have left a little bit of a tattoo on the skin.
5254 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 35-year-old member asked:
How can I heal burned/torn skin from waxing?
2 doctor answers • 2 doctors weighed in
Dr. Michael Miller answered
Wound care 36 years experience
Simple Care best: The real question is what not to do that slows down healing. Avoid using alcohol, peroxide, hibiclens, betadine, and bleach solutions. Inflammation ( red, hot, swollen, tender) is important to healing so anti-inflammatories (motrin, advil) are bad. Cover the area with a clean dressing changed every other day and protected from trauma. Antibiotics do not help healing unless it is truly infected.
4263 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
A 34-year-old member asked:
Could i donate some of my skin for one of my friends that has been severely burned?
1 doctor answer • 4 doctors weighed in
Dr. Edward Zabawski answered
Dermatology 26 years experience
NO: That is a lovely gesture, but currently there is no process to make this feasible for you or your friend. Sorry :(
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A 41-year-old member asked:
How much time does it take for my burned skin to be healed?
1 doctor answer • 1 doctor weighed in
Dr. Edward Young Jr answered
Dermatology 41 years experience
Sun damage persists: Sun damage to DNA can persist forever, long after burned skin appears healed. Epidermis (top layer ) completely sheds about every 30 days. So in a month a sunburned skin has completely peeled and regrown.
3855 viewsAnswered >2 years ago
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