I'm in pain here!!

[MTNLaurelPoacher]

2nd degree burns are the most painful.
3rd degree are the most dangerous, but at least the nerves are dead.
Still...
That must have been some spicy darn curry to do that.

I feel your pain.

[Seshat]

DO get it seen to by a doctor.

Your manager did a good thing by immediately getting you to cool the burn, but running cold water is generally preferred to standing iced water. Either way, drawing the heat out of the injury at a rapid-but-not-too-rapid pace is the goal. (Ice is bad because it draws the heat out TOO fast.)

A burn that large, however, MUST be seen by a medical person - at least a nurse practitioner or a pharmacist, but both would probably take one look and send you to a doctor.

I'll add to the chorus of voices saying you should have gone to emergency. Next time you're around someone who has a burn like that, call an ambulance and have the burn under running water while you wait for the ambulance.

[Der Cute]

Please go see a doc. I don't care if it's partially blistered or just irritated. It happened at work, there needs to be an incident report done and you need documentation that you're taking care of it.

There is something called Silvadene cream, silver metal inside a cream. It helps treat burns but is script only.

Aloe vera will help. But go see a doctor!

Cutenoob

[Eric the Grey]

Please go see a doc. I don't care if it's partially blistered or just irritated. It happened at work, there needs to be an incident report done and you need documentation that you're taking care of it.

Let me add to that. I burned myself with boiling water when I was 9 or 10 and still remember it pretty well. That's when they discovered that I'm allergic to codeine. It's not fun, but at the very least you can document that it is not terribly serious, or get help with it if it is.

Besides, assuming you live in the US, that's what they take money out of your paycheck for.


Eric the Grey

[customersruinmylife]

It's all sorted now. We documented the accident and I had it looked over. It's REALLY not that bad. The night it happened, it was unbelieveably painful, I didn't sleep much that night, but now you can only tell I've been burnt if you look in between my fingers. I've just got to keep it clean and bandaged up at work for a few days. It must have been a bloody spicy curry because the burns were similar to that of boiling water!

[crazylegs]

It must have been a bloody spicy curry because the burns were similar to that of boiling water!

Um, when you take curry off the stove, you see that bubbling, thats it boiling. Unless you were dealing with a curry that had a scoville number of around 1,000,000 it won't be the spices that have burnt you.

(I'm not trying to be nasty, I just want you to look out for yourself)