Burned my fingers.

[skilsaw]

I was browsing the photography forum just now when I decided to make myself a cup of coffee.
I burned my fingers in the process and am in considerable sharp pain. I'm hoping the burn won't blister, but I digress.

So, I put my boy scout training to good use and grabbed a cold object to drain the heat away.
The cold object of choice happens to be a frozen 8 oz strip loin steak in a zip lock plastic bag. This particular cut of meat is $32.00 per kilo regular price, but I buy a dozen when it is on sale for half price.

So, I recommend that all photographers everywhere add a frozen 8 oz strip loin steak to their camera kit.

One never knows when it will be needed.

As it is with over half of the items in my camera kit. All "good things" that I might need sometime, some of which were aquired at considerable cost and have never been used, but one never knows...

[IzzieK]

Too bad you did not buy your coffee at McDonald's. You could have sued them for millions of dollars for burning your fingers with your coffee...

[AB26]

Gee, and I thought $10 (+-R 106.00) per kilo of prime beef is a lot of money.

[Mike Buckley]

I always keep a bottle of Vitamin E capsules handy in the kitchen. If I burn myself, I cut the capsule open and drip the Vitamin E over the burned area. Blistering never occurs and the pain soon disappears.

I learned this when I was a child. My mother had taken the rack out of a hot oven and placed it on a top loading washing machine. A few minutes later, not thinking, she closed the top of the washing machine by placing both hands on the hot oven rack. Both hands literally had the burn marks that meat gets when placing it on a hot grill. She had learned from the Adelle Davis books about vitamins popular at the time that Vitamin E is good in this situation, so she put it on her hands. Later that day you could still see the markings on her hands but they never blistered and she no longer had any pain.

[Andybazyoung]

Place fingers under cold running water for 10 - 20 mins that should do the trick! No blister!
At the same time, turn on grill, place steak on the grill & cook until rare, or indeed cooked to suit ones pallet. Still keeping fingers under running water, place steak on a plate & eat slowly with a nice glass of red wine.
Please note, you may have to remember your fingers under the running water as the steak & wine may have taken your thoughts away somewhat!!
P.s. Hope the fingers are o.k.

[Colin Southern]

Interestingly, I had a conversation with a friend who's father was a plastic surgeon (he'd asked him about putting burned parts in cold water / using something frozen etc). In summary he said "it's really just a pain management thing - the damage is actually done the split second the flesh is in contact with the heat source".

My personal favourite for small burns is to melt a cube of ice on it, FWIW.

[James G]

And nobody considered a series of forensic images to document the progression of the burn process, blister development etc....
A good infra red shot would have shown up the subcutaneous capilliary damage at least......

Photography is "ART" and we all know we need to suffer to be great.....

Sorry lost opportunity.... what a pity

Seriously though.... I'm a wimp ... in similar circumstances I would require a number of good stiff alchoholic analgesics to mitigate the reality of my agony, followed by a retreat to a darkened room where I could concentrate on feeling really sorry for myself.... while my wife proceeds to laugh herself sick while explaining that men! know nothing about real pain..... something I'm quite happy to concede while self administering even more medicinal alchohol!

[Andybazyoung]

I worked as a diver at the institute of underwater naval medicine, mainly investigating cold water and diving related injuries & I was informed that during the Second World War, we learnt more about burn injuries than at any other time, mainly from pilots/crew who had to ditch into the sea. The specialist doctors said the cold water saved a great deal of lives. Scarring, unfortunately was always going to be present but the water helped considerably to reduce the amount of scarring on every person who actually ditched into the sea.
Therefore, your friends remarks are probably absolutely correct, but keeping the cold water on the injured part will reduce the amount so scarring.

[Andrew1]

I've always used ice to dull the pain. 4 cubes in a glass with 3 ounces of Southern Comfort does the trick.

[Kris V]

Aloa vera seems to be another option for minor burns, ants or mosquito bites or bee and wasp stings.
My mother-in-law swore by it.
Only thing is, when you cut the leaf open, the inside is really slimy. Yuck!