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serious rug burn, what to do?
I fell face first onto my carpet saturday night and woke up sunday morning with a terrible rug burn surrounding my eye. the effected area is about the size of a fist, and covers the upper part of my cheek, eyebrow, and a little on my eyelid. it's pretty sore, but I can't tell if that's from the burn or from the inevitable bruising that I have from slamming my face into the floor. Today (monday) the are is yellowish-green-brown, and the surrounding area is mostly red. It burns a little, but not a lot; generally it doesn't hurt of i'm not touching it or moving my face in such a way that the scab stretches. I've read that rug burns can easily become infected, and in my ignorance, I iced the burn for a few hours on sunday morning (which i now know increases tissue damage). I'm an impoverished college student with no health insurance and not a lot of disposable income for expensive antibiotic creams. I need some advice on how to cost-effectively keep this wound clean and healthy. Thank you.
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- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
best treatment for 1st degree burns (no blisters) is to keep it moist. Cool rags on it in the evening and between classes. You might also save your tea bags after you make a cup of tea, chill them, and then put those on the burn.
If you are concerned about infection (I wouldn't be) use saline solution on it. If you can safely (avoiding contact with your eye) mix some saline with peroxide and use that (the mix reduces potency of peroxide which prevents it from killing the tissue.
If it is a bruise just cycle heat and cold: heat increases blood flow, cool reduces swelling.