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Burn complications: infection, contractures, scars, emotional recovery - and how each is prevented.
Most small burns heal cleanly. But burns can go wrong in ways worth knowing in advance - some immediate, some slow.
Classical wound texts warned that a wound wrongly treated early becomes the difficult wound later - and prescribed staged care to prevent exactly that: clean early, protect through healing, correct the scar at the end. Burn complications are mostly preventable in stages 1 and 2; they are only expensive in stage 3.
Fear infection in week one, contracture in month one, and thick scars in year one - nearly all of it is preventable with clean early care, movement, and sun protection; the rest needs a burn specialist early, not late.
Written By
Dr. Daksh
BDS
Reviewed By
Dr. Varun Gupta
MD Pharmacology, MBBS
Last updated on
27 Sep 2022 • 06:23 PM (IST)
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