Honey is used more and more frequently for burns from 1st all the way to 4th degree burns. Most people have experienced 1, 2nd degree burns from sunning out too long or touching the stove.
You will need raw honey. Pure honey is fine. But if you have access to raw honey with the honeycomb that would be just great (and neat too!). Don't fret over the small stuff though.
The method I'll share with you is assuming the worst, you have little to no medical supplies for this in your household. I'll put an asterick (*) where its modified c medical supplies.
What to do? First thing is cool the skin as soon as possible with cool water. Do not use ice or butter please! The skin must stop cooking. Literally. No need to clean the wound, it has been sterilized by the heat of the injury.
Then you pour the honey over the wound completely covering it. In fact just to be sure allow some honey to overlap the wound. If you need to touch the honey put your finger in a sandwich bag and use it to keep honey clean. Or move the affected area around and the honey will simply cover it for you. Whatever works for you at the moment.
Get some plastic wrap, like Saran wrap and completely cover the wound, wrapping it around affected area enough to keep the honey within safely. If it's dripping, well...you put too much on--don't worry that won't happen. Once the plastic wrap is one, then cover that with gauze or some type of clean wrapping, even a new sock if you must.
Now....do nothing.
You read it right. At least for 48 hours. After the 48 hours, remove the wrapping and inspect the wound. Do not touch the honey!. Leave it alone. You'll notice some white stuff around the wound, that's fine. It's a natural hydrogen peroxide just like the stuff from the store created by the honey itself. If there is no redness (which is very rare to see an infection* I'll discuss below). Nothing's wrong and it's clean, some white on the edges, add some MORE honey just to cover it and re-dress wound. I stress do not touch the honey. Leave it alone. The reason you leave it alone is that a barrier is created by the honey and keeps the tissues that are vulnerable intact.
Repeat this process every two days.
Do this until the wound actually granulates. When you seen granulation you leave the wound out for air for an hour. Then add some more honey (again, do not wash off the honey) and then re-dress.
For every day thereafter do above, remove dressing from affected area and each day leave out for an extra hour. So, day 1: 1 hour Day 2: 2 hours, etc.
By the 15-20 day you will notice that everything is looking really great, no longer cover it in plastic wrap, but a clean, light dressing can be applied. Around now you can wash off with warm water only. Don't use any soap. The water water will remove the old honey.
After about 30 days the wound should be completely healed and no light dressing is needed at all. Here you will see the beautiful skin with no scarring.
*Infection. To continue with the homeopathic treatment this is where the raw honey comes in handy. The pollen, comb, have antibacterial properties. Simply the honey eat a tablespoon 3 x a day. If infection still not abated then eat 3 bananas a day or potassium tablets with 3 tablespoons of honey. Or just give them three big banana and honey sandwiches per day.
*You can wrap the honey slathered wound with a water proof bandage. Do not use gauze or absorbant type of wound coverings as the honey will be absorbed and will disturb the very delicate healing going on.
*If there is any charring or skin that's just hanging there, use a sterilized set of tweezers to remove it, only remove it if it's super easy to do so. Otherwise leave it alone it will naturally slough off during the healing process.
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