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How Can A Hand Blister Caused By A Burn Injury Be Treated?

My son is 4 and grabbed the muffler of a quad and burned his hand. He was in a lot of pain and it blistered right away, he wouldn t let us look at it to much so I ended up wrapping it up. It s been about 2 days since it happened and the blister is HUGE and the skin feels hard, he seems to still be uncomfortable with it, he can t stretch out his hands the whole way with out it hurting. Should we just keep waiting for the blister to go away?
posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2014
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Hi...it will be a problem if the blister gets secondarily infected. I suggest you take him to the emergency room and get his wound dressed up properly and examined by a physician, as you quote it is huge. Sometimes if it left like that, even if infection is not a problem, if can cause contracture due to the sensitive tendon tissues inside.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
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How Can A Hand Blister Caused By A Burn Injury Be Treated?

Hi...it will be a problem if the blister gets secondarily infected. I suggest you take him to the emergency room and get his wound dressed up properly and examined by a physician, as you quote it is huge. Sometimes if it left like that, even if infection is not a problem, if can cause contracture due to the sensitive tendon tissues inside. Regards - Dr. Sumanth