What Do You Know About Burns?
Burns can occur anytime of year, but the summertime can hold special hazards because many of us are outdoors doing yard work, grilling, or boating. Learn more about burns by taking the following quiz.
4. Burns are classified by degrees from first to third. Which of these describes a third-degree burn?
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A first-degree, or superficial, burn, although painful, causes only minor skin damage, usually heals in 3 to 5 days, and leaves no scar. Skin with a first-degree (superficial) burn is dry with no blisters. Sunburn or a minor scald is an example of a first-degree (superficial) burn. A second-degree, or partial thickness, burn is more painful; it damages but does not destroy the top two layers of skin, and heals in 10 to 21 days, according to the ABA. The skin is moist, wet and weepy, with blisters present. It is swollen and bright pink to cherry red in color. A third-degree, or full thickness, burn, the most severe, destroys all three layers of skin, and can involve fat, muscle, and bone. Skin grafts are required to treat this kind of burn. A person with a third-degree burn cannot feel anything in the burned area because the nerves are destroyed.
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