Winter heating of cryogenic burns 
 
 
Source: xinhua 

        Xinhuanet hefei December 7 (reporter BaoXiaoJing) winter approaching, many people love a warm baby, things such as hot water bag to keep warm. The expert reminds, winter human neural response is slow, long time exposure to low thermal objects send cryogenic burns easily. The scalding feeling is not serious, in fact, almost all deep burns, cannot treat STH lightly. 
 
        Reporters learned that the low temperature burns is refers to the long time of contact is not higher than 50 degrees Celsius scald caused by low thermal object. Acute, experts say, cryogenic burns more than can be found in the lower extremities, this is because the winter of the human body skin feels weak a lot, and lower limb skin cutin layer is thick, has just come into contact with the heat source, the skin may not feel hot. But over time, the heat to send out, continue to accumulate, and gradually infiltrated organization that cause burns. 
 
        "Cryogenic burns like a fire stew, seemingly area is small, the feeling is not serious, but in fact are almost all deep burns, full-thickness skin not only severely damaged, sometimes may be very hot in the subcutaneous fat layer, and even muscle layer, the area of older cryogenic burns often require surgery to heal." The first affiliated hospital of anhui medical university burn surgery at Xu Qinglian is introduced. 
 
        Experts say that in the event of cryogenic burns, do not lightly, think to put on some medicine will be good. If untreated, the pathogen easy to grow in the wounds cause infection, wound will further deepen, the injured is not only more painful, treatment and increase the difficulty. 
 
        Expert proposal, the elderly, infants and young children, people with diabetes, paralysed patients is not sensitive to the heat source of the crowd had better not use hot water bag, warm baby such heating items. When using this kind of heat sources for heating, be careful not to direct contact with the skin, it is best not to use items, such as the hot water bag, all night in order to avoid falling asleep in the middle of the night after low temperature burns.
 
 
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