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Burn

rms1954 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 02:57:45 GMT

I burnt my fingertip on the stove top. Like an idiot I touched the burner while still on .... I'm so stupid. It looks awful and it hurts worse than any burn I've ever had. I did put Cortaid ointment on because I could not even wash the dishes - even with gloves on.

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CAcableGirl2 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 03:01:40 GMT

@rms1954 Ouch. And so close to Christmas, especially if you will be cooking dinner. I once cut my finger pretty bad cutting up fruit for a fruit salad Christmas morning and had about 10 people heading over to my house in a few hours.

Take care of that burn. It always seems to happen at the worst time!

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Janey2 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 03:14:01 GMT

Keep your finger in ice cold water as long as possible. Take Tylenol before you go to sleep

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rms1954 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 03:15:48 GMT

@CAcableGirl2 wrote:
@rms1954 Ouch. And so close to Christmas, especially if you will be cooking dinner. I once cut my finger pretty bad cutting up fruit for a fruit salad Christmas morning and had about 10 people heading over to my house in a few hours.

Take care of that burn. It always seems to happen at the worst time!

Thanks. Maybe I will stop over to the walk-in medical tomorrow. I've never seen anything that looks like this. I have a dental appt tomorrow and if that's not too bad I'll stop. When it rains it poors.

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cantdrive55 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 03:19:45 GMT

If you are asking for advice, get a Rx for Silvadene.

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Mindy D — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 04:14:07 GMT

@rms1954 wrote:
I burnt my fingertip on the stove top. Like an idiot I touched the burner while still on .... I'm so stupid. It looks awful and it hurts worse than any burn I've ever had. I did put Cortaid ointment on because I could not even wash the dishes - even with gloves on.

If it just happened, leave your finger submerged in cool water. Use one or two pieces of ice in a glass or water.

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rms1954 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 04:41:39 GMT

@Mindy D wrote:
@rms1954 wrote:
I burnt my fingertip on the stove top. Like an idiot I touched the burner while still on .... I'm so stupid. It looks awful and it hurts worse than any burn I've ever had. I did put Cortaid ointment on because I could not even wash the dishes - even with gloves on.
If it just happened, leave your finger submerged in cool water. Use one or two pieces of ice in a glass or water.

Did it at dinner time. About seven hours ago. Tried the ice thing but it hurt just touching ice.

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CritterKeeper — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 13:08:11 GMT

Agreed! Silvadene will help in a matter of a couple days. When my son was just a toddler, he stuck his hand on the stove and burned his whole hand. Dr. gave us Silvadene and it was much better in a matter of a few days.

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noodleann — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 13:39:52 GMT

This sounds like a possibly deep, damaging burn. Unless it's better and feels more "normal" (normal for a burn) this morning, I hope you seek real medical attention.

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hckynut — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:23:03 GMT

@rms1954 wrote:
I burnt my fingertip on the stove top. Like an idiot I touched the burner while still on .... I'm so stupid. It looks awful and it hurts worse than any burn I've ever had. I did put Cortaid ointment on because I could not even wash the dishes - even with gloves on.

@rms1954

A few years ago I spilled a 16oz. mug of just boiled instant coffee between my legs. Came out with 2nd degree burns in 1 of the worst places possible. I did the in-home treatment right away and talked with 1 of my doctor friends, and visited my PCP as soon as I could get in.

He wrote me a prescription for Silvadene, which I still use when, I too,seem to find ways to burn fingers etc.

hckynut

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depglass — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:27:23 GMT

My pharmacist neighbor used Silvadene on her burn and that's good enough for me. She gave me the remainder of the tube.

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Jersey Born — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:46:54 GMT

I second the ice cold water. If you have a turkey baster, I recommend separating the bulbous bottom of it and putting crushed ice and water into it, along with your finger-- for a full day! I did the same thing to one of my fingers (helping a friend clean her stove), and that was the only thing that gave me instant and complete relief. I even slept with that finger in the turkey baster. The next morning, it was fine.

Good luck to you. The pain of a burned fingertip is extreme. I know.

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Terrywu — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:05:07 GMT

Actually I recommend Alicante over the counter med. I read it in a post on this forum. I got instant relief. Good luck.

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Terrywu — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:06:32 GMT

I don't know what happened in my previous post . It should have read Alocane.

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deb5555 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:33:20 GMT

burnjel works great

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lovesallanimals — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:25:47 GMT

I had taken a hot pan out of the oven and set it on my stove. A few minutes later, I grabbed the handle forgetting how hot it was and burnt my whole palm. After putting it in ice water I smeared some honey all over my palm and fingers then wrapped it in some gauze. I did this also overnight and the next morning, there was no pain, no burn, no blisters, like it had never happened. I was so amazed this worked.

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Jackyl — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 20:25:22 GMT

Don't feel bad. I used a frying pan in the oven the other night to cook steaks and forgot and grabbed the handle. How dumb. I'm not used to using frying pans in the oven that often. It stung for a day or so and it feels much better. I gobbed on my Honey Beez skin healing scream and I really think that helped.

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SXMGirl — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 20:38:02 GMT

@rms1954 I seem to hit the side of the toaster oven since I do most of my cooking in that. I ignore the small burns; but, for larger or more painful ones, I use Key West Aloe's Comfortcaine that I keep in the fridge. It is a blue-green gel and really works well.

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chickenbutt — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:58:56 GMT

I hope it's better today!

I didn't know they had so many products for burns. I still just use aloe vera gel, but haven't gotten a really bad burn like that in a while.

Last night I was making chicken and white rice for my sick pupster and I can't believe I did this. The pan I had the chicken in, I just grabbed the pan off the burner by the two stainless steel 'D' handles to put the pan on a silicone trivet. Um, duh, stupid. That's going to be HOT. It was. SMH at self sometimes.