DEAR DR. GOTT: I would like to share my recent burn experienced. I was making jam and pouring boiling jam into jars, when a jar tipped and when I grabbed for it, the contents went flying. The jam landed on the side and backs of both my hands from the second knuckle to past my watch band and covered about half of the area from side to side; it was an extensive burn.

I ran to the sink and washed off the sticky jam and as I was doing that, I remembered reading a recent article saying flour was a good burn cure. I shoved both hands into my flour container and left them there for about 10 minutes or so. At first, it hurt really badly but as time passed, the pain diminished. I took my hands out of the flour, afraid of what I would find. It took a minute because the flour was cooked to my hand but when I got it washed off, [Read more…]