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Burn Remedy

CAN'T HURT. MIGHT HELP.

I am SO impressed by this...looks awesome!!!

My experience with burns is this:

Once I was cooking some corn and stuck my fork in the boiling
water to see if the corn was ready. I missed and my hand went
into the boiling water....

A friend of mine, who was a Vietnam vet, came into the house, just
as I was screaming, and asked me if I had some plain old flour...I
pulled out a bag and he stuck my hand in it. He said to keep my hand
in the flour for 10 mins. which I did. He said that in Vietnam, this
guy was on fire and in their panic, they threw a bag of flour all over
him to put the fire out...well, it not only put the flour out, but he never
even had a blister!!!!

SOOOO, long story short, I put my hand in the bag of flour for 10 mins,
pulled it out and had not even a red mark or a blister and absolutely
NO PAIN. Now, I keep a bag of flour in the fridge and every time I burn
myself.
I use the flour and never ONCE have I ever had a red spot, a burn or
a blister!
*cold flour feels even better than room temperature flour.

Miracle, if you ask me. Keep a bag of white flour in your fridge and
you will be happy you did. I even burnt my tongue and put the flour
on it for about 10 minutes and the pain was gone and no burn.
Try it! BTW, don't run your burn area under cold water first,
just put it right into the flour for 10 minutes and experience a miracle!

interesting. Wish I would have seen this this morning. My son accidentally touched my iron this morning. Poor little guy burnt the edge of his finger

Wow!

Very helpful info. Thanks for sharing. :thumbup: :thumbup:

I think I will still soak in cold water, has always worked for me.

I store my extra flour in the freezer and only some in my canister so will be extra cold ...just hope won't need it any time soon.

Thank You for this.

Thanks for the tip!

I always use ice because it reduces the temperature in the skin fast. Burns go deeper when the high temperature penetrates further; immediate icing brings the temp down fast so the heat cannot penetrate as deep.

I think flour would be helpful for smothering flames. Suppose cold flour would do both......

I keep a cottage cheese carton with flour in the upper freezer of my refrigerator. It is handy to grab for small recipes and burns. Easier to get to than large bag of flour.

I like that handy idea.

Thanks for the tip. I'd never heard it before.

It is definitely worth a try. Burns hurt bad!

Linda

Worth a try....if ever needed! Thanks for sharing

According to my first aid class, you should never put ice or running water on a burn because the added pressure can exacerbate the damage to the skin. Instead, soak the affected area in cool water.

And most important, never use any kind of oil based product on a burn!

Thanks, worth a try!

If you through flour on a fire it ignites. It is fun to see the puff go up, worked in a pizza place, Manager would get bored. His way of having fun. So the vietnam story is WAY off base.

Love home remedies. For beestings my mom used to mix somthing like baking soda and Lemon? then put it on the sting. Worked wonders. wish i knew what that little concoction was, could use it on my kids.

Great idea!!

Great idea!!

How strange. I burned the top of my hand some time ago, about a second degree burn I'd guess, and was hurting far too much to get my keys and go to ER, so grabbed some MSM powder I had setting out and put it on my burn after running my hand quickly through running water. It healed with no scar, only a tiny off color on one finger, but since I'm 77 it doesn't even show. I thought it was due to the MSM but also might have been due to the drying power of the powder.

I'll keep this in mind and share it with others. Might be a darn good idea for campers and back packers too.

Interesting!

I would have never thought of this! Definitely worth trying. Does it work on any degree of burn?

When we were kids , we would mix baking soda and ammonia and make a paste to put on bee stings. Another thing that works is mud.

Never, ever put flour or powder on fires, it'll explode.

This might work because it concerns a WATER burn, not
a fire burn. As for dumping it on a guy on fire, that is pretty
hard to believe, but it never sank in to my brain till someone
called us on it on this forum about a burn remedy.

When my mom was little, my grandmother was frying up chicken and she used a lot of oil. Mom pulled the pan off the stove and covered herself in hot oil. My grandmother went immediately to the flour sack and dumped it on her. Mom never had a blister or scar.

Egg White is also very good. My mother poured boiling gravey on Thanksgiving once over her hand and we cracked open an egg, carefully covered her hand with the egg white and blew on it to help it dry, and while it was sore, where the egg white covered her hand, it was only red, but in a spot we missed, a blister developed. it also helps the pain once the air is sealed away from the burn for some reason. but I do like the flour idea, I think it is quicker than egg white and will keep it in mind. thanks.

Please be careful about using flour to extinguish a fire - the airborne particulates can quickly ignite and cause a sort of explosion!! Smothering with a a blanket or towel would be safer!

in my house, we keep lavender essential oil in the kitchen at all times for burns. It is amazing. Use sparingly as a little goes a long way and more is not necessarily better.

If you through flour on a fire it ignites.

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this reminds me of how powdered coffee creamer will go up in a nice fireball if you do it just right...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw4ZRqmxOc
PS - the best one EVER

Flour would be cooler than your body temp. That's why it feels better, just like cool water would.

But PLEASE never throw it on a fire. Flour dust WILL explode.

Hmm, Ammonia. I would have never guessed that. Maybe that is why I remember the lemon scent because of the cleaner. I don't have any ammonia. Ill need to buy a small bottle. Thank you!

Definitely worth trying

Thank you! next time I burn my ear with curling iron will try this!

delma

I keep an aloe vera plant handy. Slice open and use the gel.

Thank you.

thanks for that info have never heard of it either

Do I see a Myth Busters episode coming up? That would be interesting. Hey Jamie. Hey Adam.

Wish I had known of this years ago. Glad to know it now, though.

Huh. Never heard of this, but I always keep some flour in the freezer to use in making pie crust, since EVERYTHING has to be super cold in making pie crust.