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Facts on Burns

Most small or superficial burns can be treated at home.

In this article:

What are different types of burns?

When to go to your GP

Symptoms

When to go to hospital (A&E)

Common causes

How Chemist Online can help

Treating burns at home (what to do)

Advice & Support

What are different types of burns?
Burns can generally be categorised into three types:

Small burns (or superficial burns or scalds, where only the top layer of the skin is affected) – these are usually caused by small incidents such as a spilt hot drink, or kettle steam, and can be treated with basic first aid at home

Partial thickness burns – more severe than small burns because the damage is deeper and blistering tends to occur in tandem with the loss of skin and the redness and pain in the affected area

Full thickness burns – this is where the entire thickness of the skin is affected to the point that the skin becomes blackened (these types of severe ‘charring’ burns as also known as ‘third degree burns’ and can leave considerable scarring)

Symptoms
Symptoms of burns include:

discoloured skin

peeled skin

blistered skin

pain around the affected area (ranging from mild to severe)

swelling

charred skin

damage to muscle, bone and body tissue

Other symptoms which can occur as a result of sustaining burns can include: shock, increased heart rate, headache, fever and faintness.

Common causes
Common causes of burns include:

Hot water and/or steam (e.g., baths where the water is at a scalding temperature, accidentally knocked over cups of tea…)

Cooking fluids

Contact with fire

The skin touching extremely hot surfaces, such as an open oven door scalding the backs of a child’s legs, or a metallic burns sustained from absentmindedly sitting upon a car bonnet on a boiling hot day…

Accidents with inflammable liquids and gases – usually sustained in the workplace

Chemical burns – also usually sustained in the workplace

Electrical burns (also known as electricity burns) – these can be sustained at home or in the workplace

Laser burns (e.g., where an operation that involves laser surgery may go wrong for some reason)

Sunburns

Note: The severity of a person’s pain from a burn may not necessarily correspond with the severity or classification of the burn itself. In fact, some small burns can be significantly more painful than a partial thickness burn.

Treating burns at home (what to do)
What to do:

Immediately use cool (but not very cold) water to cool the burnt area. Keep the affected area under this stream of tepid water for not less than twenty minutes, even if this seems excessive to you at the time

Carefully remove any jewellery

Remove clothing being extremely careful not to pull away any material that has stuck to the skin

Gently place a cold compress against the affected area (a flannel, hand towel or even a clean tea towel that has been soaked in cool water will suffice)

Cover the affected area with Clingfilm

When to go to your GP
If you have failed to treat your burn at home – or are particularly concerned about what to do after having used first aid at home – then make an immediate appointment with your GP. If you cannot get an appointment with them, accept the option of seeing whichever doctor is available at your local medical practice at the time – it is important to have your burn(s) assessed without delay in case it has become blistered and/or infected.

When to go to hospital (A&E)
Seek urgent medical attention at the A&E department of your nearest hospital if:

smoke of fumes have been inhaled

you have sustained an electrical burn (e.g., from a domestic electricity supply, or through an accident in the workplace)

you have sustained a chemical burn

you have pre-existing medical condition (e.g., you have a cardiovascular disease, are diabetic, or you are pregnant)

How Chemist Online can help
Through this website we have a range of treatments available to buy which can help relieve the pain of small burns, such as: Panadol Actifast Paracetamol, Vantage Ibuprofen Tablets and Anadin Ibuprofen Tablets.

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Advice & Support
The British Burns Association
Tel: 0161 291 6321
Website: www.britishburnsassociation.co.uk

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33-37 University Street
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Tel: 0845 450 0275
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Crucial Aspects of a Mobile App Development Company

India comes second in the world, in the number of mobile phones users. The number of people who own and use Smartphones is growing at a rapid pace. This has significantly increased the demand of mobile application in the market. However it is not as easy as it may seem to some. Starting a mobile application development business is not everyone’s cup of tea. Below are some of the challenges that are usually faced by start-up companies:

Resource restraint:

It’s not that businesses don’t have access to internal programming talent. In fact many of them do, but most of that talent generally has experience on the Windows platform and not on popular mobile platforms such as iOS and Android. Windows can be a good part of any mobile platform discussions, however, it’s just a part and a lot of work is required to be done on iOS and Android.

Security:

Every mobile device maker understands the significance of security, and provides room for it. Sometimes diverse mobile platforms offer diverse degree of support for protecting data stored on the device. Also, not every mobile app requires the same level of security. However, the responsibility for securing data comes on the app developers’ shoulders. So, they should integrate encryption into app down to the file system level.

Gathering & Execution of Ideas:

When you establish a new business, the very first aspect that matters is objective evaluation and collecting all ideas. Doing thorough study and analysis also matters a lot. Taking help from experts and then coming to a decision.

Finance:

Many people believe that this is a simple task, especially for someone who is already a billionaire, whereas, whether it’s an investor or your own investment, it is the important plan apt projections before investing into the new venture. Whatever sort of business you are establishing you should be clear about how much investment you will be requiring and from where you’re going to arrange it.

In spite of your challenges which you’ll be facing, there are several aspects that may lead you to your objectives:

Appropriate Platform:

Your application should be optimized for a mobile user. Ensure that your application is compatible and functional for all devices and brands irrespective of the size.

User Friendliness:

Your application should look amazing. Even the best application idea could weaken if it isn’t enclosed in a fully branded, colorfully appealing way. Your application should be easy to install, easy to use, and easy to access.

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Medical Enzymes Will Become a New Bright Spot in the International Pharmaceutical Market

With the advent of more and more new enzyme preparations, medical enzymes will become a new bright spot in the international pharmaceutical market. There are only a few varieties of domestic medical enzymes such as multi-enzyme tablets. Enzyme is a general term for important protein and biochemical substances. Enzymes exist in plants and animals.

As early as more than 100 years ago, Western scientists have isolated trypsin with physiological effects from animal digestive tract fluids. This substance can break down various proteins into amino acids in test tubes. Because of its extensive participation in various physiological activities, enzymes have become more and more widely used in medicine. Due to the small demand for industrial enzymes, the fermentation method for industrial production of enzymes, namely the fermentation method, did not come out until the 1950s.

Although there are at least thousands of enzymes discovered by scientists at present, there are only dozens of enzymes that are actually put into industrial production, and some enzymes are directly extracted from plants or prepared by bioengineering technology. Enzyme is an ecological and efficient catalyst, and has a strong specificity that one enzyme can only catalyze and transform one substance. At present, the global total production of industrial enzymes has exceeded 1 million tons, and China’s annual production of enzymes accounts for about 1/3 of the world’s total output.

It is estimated that in 2007, the total global market sales of enzymes reached 5 billion to 6 billion US dollars. The most important uses of enzymes are concentrated in the food industry. In addition, they are also widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, feed and other industries. In terms of consumption, the food industry consumes about two-thirds of the world’s total enzyme production, and the total consumption of enzymes in other industries accounts for the remaining one-third.

It plays an important role in the production of β-lactam antibiotics. The application of enzymes in the pharmaceutical industry began in the early 1980s. With the advent of cephalosporin β-lactam antibiotics, the serious environmental pollution caused during the production of cephalosporin products is worrying. At that time, British and Dutch scientists first reformed the chemical lysis method that has been used for many years into a clean and efficient “enzymatic lysis”-the enzyme used was penicillin lyase and cephalosporin lyase, thereby eliminating the production of semi-synthetic penicillin or cephalosporin Environmental pollution caused by bacteriocin products. These two enzymes can be used to prepare a series of semi-synthetic penicillins such as ampicillin and amoxicillin and other key raw materials for cephalosporins. With the implementation of the enzymatic cracking process, antibiotic production has entered a brand new “enzymatic production era”.

In recent years, some newly developed therapeutic enzyme preparations abroad such as antibacterial enzymes, fibrinolytic enzymes, mucolytic enzymes, analgesic enzymes, antitumor enzymes, immune activator enzymes, etc. In addition, Western researchers have also found that protease preparations compatible use with existing antibiotics such as ampicillin, tetracycline, SMP-CO and fluoroquinolones can greatly improve the antimicrobial effect of these drugs and reduce the drug resistance of bacteria.

According to reports, some hospitals have combined enzyme preparations with antibiotic preparations to achieve good results in the treatment of refractory urinary tract infections. These new clinical uses have laid a solid foundation for the medical market for enzyme preparations. Medical enzyme preparations have become a new breed of therapeutic agents. With the advent of more and more new enzyme preparations, medical enzymes such as diagnostic enzymes will become a new bright spot in the international pharmaceutical market. The enzymes produced now are mainly concentrated in the food industry, accounting for about 96% of the domestic enzyme production value, and there are very few varieties for treatment. At present, there are only a few varieties such as multi-enzyme tablets and lumbrokinase. It is believed that, driven by the new trend of international drug use, domestic development of new medical enzyme production will have broad market prospects.