Burn Remedies Questions
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| TREATING LASTING BURN SCARS |
| BURNS AT SURGICAL SITE, NECROSIS |
| HOT PEPPER BURNS |
| SEVERE BURN TREATMENT |
| RESTORING SKIN AROUND OLD BURN |
TREATING LASTING BURN SCARS
12/18/2011: Mother and Son from Anonymous writes: "Dear Ted, Exactly one year ago, my son and I were in the hospital because of severe burn-wounds. My son was burnt in his face and neck, I was burnt on my right-leg. My leg needed a skin transplant, but for my son the doctors were not sure if surgery was necessary, so they waited. We were taken care of for 12 days, but meanwhile I discovered an alternative treatment for burning-wounds on the internet. It's called Boegem balsem and it's made of vaseline, sesame oil and sunflower oil. We "escaped" the hospital (the doctors didn't want to let us go home) on the 12th day and went home with loads of Boegem balsem. We were able to heal the wounds at home, without any more pain! We are very thankful to Kees Boegem, who helped us with his balm!!!!
My leg has become almost as pretty as before the burns, but my son now has some ugly scars. I would think you'd call them hypertrophic, but maybe it's called keloid? I found the Earthclinic website and spent days to read all about it, but I still don't know what to do best. Until now I'm treating his scars twice a day with silicon-gel, and/or pure vitamine E oil ( I always let him decide). Sadly it looks like it's getting worse instead of better. Yesterday I started with pure vinegar on the scars every 30 min. for 6 times, and today we are doing the same. It seems like it stops the itching and maybe the color is a little lighter because of it. My question for you is : do you think these are keloids or hypertrophic scars?
What would you think would be the best treatment for him, to make the scars somewhat less ugly... or even better? It would be great if you are able to respond to my question; i understand that you are a busy man, but luckily enough I can be really patient... so I'm looking forward for your answer somewhere in time. Thanks for doing the things you do, I love you already!"
01/12/2012: Ted from Bangkok, Thailand replies: "The best remedies for healing of scar tissue is the pure aloe oil mixed in DMSO, with some vitamin E d alpha tocopherol, with a little vitamin A. It usually doesn't leave any scar tissue for burn victims, and it helps that lavender oil is added just a little bit to prevent any itchiness. It appears to me the rising skin to be a keloid, but MSM or DMSO, vitamin E, superoxide dismutase, alpha lipoic acid are good ones but the original formula will usually do fine. The component of aloe vera oil that is responsible for the healing comes from beta sitosterol (only 1%) in DMSO, if no aloe is used, and the rest is vitamin d and vitamin A, would do it. Ascorbyl palmitate may help in certain cases. The DMSO will help the dissolving of scar tissue and will slowly come back to normal. Vitamin K is a bit hard to find but I used vitamin K2, 1% solution in the formula to help out with wrinkles and uneven skin also, so it can be included if required, I used this for face creams also. I generally don't used sunflower oil as a base, but I do use hemp oil as the preferred base if I have to.The problem about this formulation is if you can get the aloe vera oil, which is very hard to obtain in United States, so if you cannot get, you can always used Mebo, which is used to treat burn victims as they have the beta sitosterol, or you can just get the aloe vera juice, which works less effectively but works too. The vaseline is the prime treatment to prevent bacteria or virus from infection and this is preferred to be used but I generally don't use the sunflower oil or as hemp oil has all the nutrition in proper proportion for the human health, what's missing is the antioxidants such as vitamin E and perhaps vitamin C, such as ascorbyl palmitate, but I generally don't used that either. In my opinion I think that some keloids are excess fibrinogen and it may be removed mostly by applying the DMSO mixed with lavender oil (just a 1%). would dissolved it. The itchiness may be a fungus and you can try tannic acid to the area with water may help some.
Ted"
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BURNS AT SURGICAL SITE, NECROSIS
09/26/2011: Anonymous from Anonymous writes: "Dear Ted, My brother is an avid follower of you and suggested I e-mail you for some input. I had a triple hernia repair at a local military hospital and my surgeon advised me to apply heat to the incision site. Which caused 3rd degree burns that have now gone into necrosis. They started trying to treat me with silver oxide which turned everything very very silver. They have now switched me to basitracin and adaptic bandages that I change twice daily. I go in on this Tuesday for them to scrap off all the necrotic white skin that hasn't turned black yet and try to lessen the need for skin grafting. Every time I go to the military hospital I think every surgeon looks at my wound and they all leave scratching their heads, baffled?!?! I am worried about long term scarring!!! Do you have any suggestions? Thanks-In-Advance."
09/26/2011: Ted from Bangkok, Thailand replies: "The white area can be either the effect of applying silver (but they are black) but may be reacted with some skin which turns gray, that's the area in the center. Now it could be the white area is silver so they were not given silver oxide but pure silver, I don't know from where I am standing. The white area may be a rare form of fungus which suppresses the pigmentation (that's often the case), or the medicine may have suppressed the pigmentation. In any event, what they should have done is mix some antiseptics with aloe vera oil, vitamin E and some vitamin A, to help accelerate the healing. People have often downplayed aloe vera, but it is remarkable in causing healing without all these scarring and other things, if you can find aloe vera oil in your area!Lysine, glycine and glutamine can be taken to help healing, taken lysine 1000 x 5, glycine, and glutamine about the same amount. Magnesium chloride solution with appropriate dilution (to where it won't cause irritation if too concentrated and not too diluted to point if causes itchiness), is used as an antiseptic solution. Surgeons generally know magnesium chloride doesn't do damage to the skin (e.g. necrosis, discoloration, etc.) as their other antiseptics do to the healthy skin.
Ted"
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HOT PEPPER BURNS
09/15/2008: Katalina from New York, NY writes: "I just cut up some hot peppers and did not know not to touch the insides. Well I did and now my hands are BURNING!!! Anyone have any advice for pepper burns??? Thank you!!!"
05/04/2009: Joanne from Marikina City, Philippines replies: "we're exactly on the same boat & hoping this site would help. heeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllppppppp!"
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SEVERE BURN TREATMENT
06/13/2007: Lucas from Columbia, Missouri writes: "About a month ago i burned my arm with a hot glue gun. This burn was pretty severe and it still has not gone away. I realize that i will probably have a pretty big scar but as of right now it looks horrible. it is darker than the rest of my skin and it's kinda wrinkled but it dosen't look like a scar. It also looks transparent and glossy. Im just wondering what i should do so if you have an answer please reply to this message. Thanks Lucas"
Ted from Bangkok, Thailand replies: "Usually if the burns are fresh, or new, aloe vera will heal the burns pretty quickly, such as aloe vera oil with a couple of drops of lavender oil. Hospitals burns section uses vaseline gauze, but an easy one is vaseline mixed with 5% zinc oxide. This zinc oxide thing is not known in hospitals, but it does reduce the infection and irritations. It has worked very well for me. If the scars are already there, the best thing is to use some iodine and rubbed on the skin (cotton balls) to remove the scars. Actually I prefer colorless iodine made from sodium iodide or potassium iodide. When done everyday the scars get removed.If it is a tough case, then a 50% DMSO solution rubbed several times a day with a white towel. Maybe, but haven't tried, it an iodine added may help removal. In the future I believe a vaseline, peppermint oil, some aloe oil 1%, zinc oxide is the ideal mixture, but those are a bit harder to find! Vaseline is what allows the wounds to heal without the infection."
09/25/2011: Melissa from San Diego, Ca, Usa replies: "Ted from B. A family member recommended me to this site and told me to look for your advice because he has found you to logical and respected. I went in for a triple ventral hernia repair and my surgeon advised me to apply a heating pad to the incision site. As a consequence I have severe 3rd degree burns across my midsection and spreading necrosis. Right now they have me in adaptic bandages with basitracin ointment which I change twice a day. I was on silver oxide but it turned my necrosis area severely silver. I go back in on Tuesday for a secondary to scrape off the white necrosis (the area that hasn't turned black yet) and try to stop the spread of necrosis without skin grafting. Any suggestions?"
10/03/2011: Kelly from Catawissa, Mo, Usa replies: "DMSO 70/30"
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RESTORING SKIN AROUND OLD BURN
09/12/2006: Natalia writes: "hi my name natalia. i am from rep. of georgia. i have burn on my leg since i was 3 years. I am in holistic massage therapy. My instractor told me about this web.i would like to know if you can help me with my burn. thanks, natalia."
Ted from Bangkok, Thailand replies: "Dear Natalia: An old leg burn is difficult to treat, however you can slowly removed them with a mixture of DMSO and water. Depending on your skin sensitivity, the more the DMSO and less water the better. Start with a 50% DMSO and water first. Then rubbing in area of the scar, it will remove very slowly. However, modern laser technology can remove the unsightly scars quite fast."
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