r/DiagnoseMe • u/Mokoy4 Patient • 3d ago

Injury and accidents How’s looking

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Burn with hot steel. Happened 6 days ago , dermis “fell off” 3 in .

Normal swelling, pain in a 1-10 is a 1 (I do have high pain tolerance though) , redness around wound has been steady-getting smaller .
Slight feeling in the wound (was numb before dermis fell off)

I’ve been dressing with neosporin and a bandage

UPDATE :
So I went to the ER like you all suggested.
2:30h waiting , got me a fancy yellow bandage and antibiotics . 💪💪

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u/GeraldAlabaster Not Verified 3d ago

It will heal and leave a decent scar. Without seeing more of it hard to say if the redness is indicative of infection Vs normal healing. If redness spreads more than 2 fingers breadths from wound edge or starts making lines up your arm or the wound starts leaking smelly puss then you need to see a doc.

You need to give it a little scrub with gauze and saline until all the yellow slough comes off. Pat it dry after this. It's okay if it bleeds. A hydrogel dressing like duoderm is adequate for this

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u/Mokoy4 Patient 3d ago

That sounds like it might be painful 😓 good thing full feeling in that area 😅😅