This is just an anecdote, as there's no way to say if it worked better or worse than any other treatment, but here goes...
My 13 yo son was making breakfast. The spatula sat too close to the side of the frying pan and the plastic handle started to melt. He tried to pick it up and burned the outside edge of the palm of his hand. His sister got me from upstairs. When I came down he was doing the right thing by running his hand under cold water. I let him do that while I gathered stuff. Examining the injury, it was probably a bit more than an inch long and a little less wide. The area was red, there were several blisters, and, worst of all, flakes of solidified plastic were adhering to the skin in places. He said it was quite painful and tender. He was able to remove some of the plastic himself while still holding it under the cold water, but I cautioned him to be gentle and not break the skin. After it seemed like the water had done what it could, I had him spray CS on it for a few minutes. It still hurt quite a bit. I prepared a poultice of bentonite clay on a folded gauze square and applied it to the area, then wrapped his hand with half a roll of gauze and taped the end to hold it. The pain gradually subsided to a dull ache and some tenderness over the next half hour. We left for the zoo soon after, taking supplies with us to re-wrap his hand when we arrived. In the zoo parking lot, we removed the gauze wrap and wiped and washed the clay away with gauze and the spray bottle of CS. All the plastic flakes came off with the clay! It had been applied for a bit over an hour. By this time the pain and tenderness was all but gone. We saturated a gauze pad with CS and covered the area, covered that with a dry gauze square, and three long pieces of tape to keep the dressing in place and slow down the evaporation of the silver. When we got home at the end of the day, the area was still not tender or painful. Several blisters remain and the skin is a little "tough" in the area, but there is no sign of infection. We'll watch to make sure that if or when the blisters break it doesn't get infected. He'll need to protect the area most of the time 'til it heals the rest of the way. The results seem okay so far. He was a little skeptical about the clay, this being the first time I'd attempted to use it on him, but I told him it ought to help the pain faster than anything else. Actually I had hoped the effect would be even faster, but I'm still satisfied. I know that generally, such a burn would be very tender and sore for a lot longer than this one was. The CS, of course, did its usual fine job of preventing infection, which, by itself, is enough to speed healing. Comments? Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
