Because of some stupid action I got some really hot water all over my thumb while I was making a cup of tea. Naturally I knew what to do, rinse the painful area abundantly with cold water. Still the burned area remained irritated and painful. Then I got a Spanish suggestion: Toothpaste!<\/p>\n
By covering the burned skin by a thin layer of toothpaste the area directly starts to cool down and as long as the toothpaste is there it stops feeling painful. A very good suggestion that works well. First rinse abundantly with cold water and then a layer of toothpaste.<\/p>\n
The reason I think it works is because normally a lot of moisture is lost from the burned skin and this causes irritation and a painful feeling. The toothpaste covering the burned area stops any moisture from escaping and at the same time has a cooling effect.<\/p>\n
Update:<\/strong> Although toothpaste will have a cooling effect it only works with very small burns. For each burn you need to first apply 15 minutes of cool running water to the burned area.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because of some stupid action I got some really hot water all over my thumb while I was making a cup of tea. Naturally I knew what to do, rinse the painful area abundantly with cold water. Still the burned area remained irritated and painful. Then I got a Spanish suggestion: Toothpaste! By covering the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}