I want to add my burn story. Well, the burn story of my kitten. He was about 6 months old, jumped up on the stove and pulled a pan of hot grease down. It hit his rear back, went down from the spine to ankles on both back legs, and burnt off all the hair on the end of his tail.
The burns on his legs were deep, burned off all the hair, and burnt the flesh down into the meat. It was about an inch wide on one leg and about a half inch wide on the other leg. He just laid and was miserable because whichever side he laid on he was in pain. We took his food and water to him as he didn't want to get up, and carried him to his litter box. I put fresh aloe vera gel (from my plants) on the burns twice to 3 times a day for the first 3 days. I knew I was causing him much pain when I touched him, but it had to be done. On the 4th morning I smacked myself in the forehead and ran to the health food store to buy some spray on CS. I started spraying his burns 4 to 6 times a day and you could see that it was MUCH easier on him, rather than me rubbing in gel. I was basically shocked at how fast the CS started working. The burns began at the outside edges, to heal and every day you could see new skin growth. This did not happen with the aloe gel. Within 2 weeks the burns were sealed over with just a thin scab seam up the middle of the long burns. The leg that had the half inch wide burn started growing hair and it filled in so that you have to actually spread the hair to see a very fine line scar On the leg that had the inch wide scar, the hair grew back till the area was about a half inch wide, from hip to ankle, getting thinner at the ankle. In the widest part, towards the top of the leg, no hair grew back. BUT--the skin is flat, pink and quite smooth looking and smooth to the touch instead of puckered like normal burn scars are. He is now 6 years old and in perfect health. I would never be without CS again (bought my own maker after that) and it would be the first thing I reached for if I ever got burnt. Samala, Renee
