nose frostbite

frostbite Contents

Burns

result from exposure of the skin heat (flame, boiling water, burning and hot liquids and gases, hot objects and molten metals, etc.). There are four degrees of burns:

  1. Redness;

  2. Redness and swelling of tissues with the formation of bubbles;

  3. Skin necrosis;

  4. Necrosis of the skin and underlying tissue, including cartilage.

First aid and treatment: first of all, further exposure to high temperatures need to be addressed (to extinguish the flame); First aid in the first minutes after the burning of the external nose is applied to the nose of an alcoholic lotion, then fired surface should be closed with a sterile bandage or a clean cotton cloth, the pressed iron. By the burnt surface, do not touch your hands and puncture bubbles and lubricate all kinds of ointments and sunflower oil. Isolated external nose burns are rare, they are usually combined with burns of the face and neck, as well as other parts of the body. Treatment is carried out in a specialized burn center. With burns 2-4 degrees necessarily administered tetanus serum.

frostbitten

nose quite common, distinguish four degrees of frostbite:

  1. When after thawing marked swelling and blueness of the skin;

  2. The formation of bubbles;

  3. Necrosis of the skin and subcutaneous fat;

  4. Necrosis of the skin and cartilage.

First aid and treatment: you need as soon as possible to restore blood flow, this makes discreet nose skin rubbing alcohol, vodka, alcohol, camphor. You can also gently massage the skin of the external nose with his hand or with a soft woolen cloth. In the presence of bubbles can not produce rubbing should not be too self-pierce the bubbles. Frostbitten skin should be gently wipe with alcohol and apply a sterile dressing. 2-4 degree frostbite treated in a hospital, be sure administered tetanus serum. Appointed antibiotics if necessary.