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Ted Please go to the hospital. There are various thicknesses of burn severity. Keep it covered with some form Serran wrap to keep the nerve endings covered. Cool water, no ice (damages tissue, limits vascularization). It would appear to be a full thickness burn from the way you described it. The color of the burn is what is worrying me, from my surgical technology text's burn care unit, it sounds like the discolouration is sever and would definitely need more attention than some amature like me guessing over the internet. My wife is a burn tech/nurse intern at a large university hospital burn ward and recomends getting to an emergency or urgent care area immediately based on the discolouration. This is all general burn care stuff and without seeing your burn, it can't be diagnosed. Take some ibuprofen and go. I know that the whole no insurance thing is a royal pain in the wallet, but secondary infections and necrossed tissue are worse nightmares. A diagnostic question: When you touch it, does the colour come back with blood refilling the tissues afteward? If not, the worse the damage is. Sorry if all of this is not really helping. Take Care and let us know what happens. Todd -----Original Message----- >From: Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> >Sent: Apr 22, 2006 8:05 PM >To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >Subject: Re: OT -- A GUITARISTS SECOND WORST NIGHTMARE > >Actually, I've heard that applying ice to a burn is not the best thing to >do. Here is a quote from a medical source I'm looking at now: > >"Do not apply ice to the burn. It compounds the injury by decreasing the >blood flow to the burned area, thus starving the damaged tissues of vital >fluids and proteins" >"immerse the burn in cool running water for at least 30 minutes to help >relieve the pain. If you can't cool the burn immediately, this procedure >will still help to some degree up to 2 hours after the injury has >occurred." > >Kris > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mark Landman" <mlandman@sonic.net> >To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 6:01 PM >Subject: Re: OT -- A GUITARISTS SECOND WORST NIGHTMARE > > >> ted- >> >> Ice immediately to cool the remaining heat and reduce swelling, but >not >> "bare" ice on the skin for too long, the ice can damage tissue as >well. >> Try wrapping the ice in a cotton towel... >> >> Keep it cold for pain relief into this evening, but beyond that no >good >> advice, it sounds like at minimum you've got a 1st degree burn with >areas >> of 2nd degree (the brown areas). >> >> It might be worth a trip to an ER or at least to call an advice nurse, >> the finger tips are pretty important and your description is >troubling, >> the blisters aren't bad, but the brown "ironing board" stuff sounds >not >> so good. >> >> Good luck! >> >> best- >> >> mark >> >> > >