Today, I spilled boiling water on my legs. A coworker told me that putting mustard on the burn would heal it. I ended up at the emergency room. When people walked by I could hear them say "it smells like hot dogs". FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
Today, while grabbing a husk of corn out of the boiling hot pot, I splashed hot water on my neck, dropped the corn on my injured toe, and cut myself on the counters, all while my family laughed at my pain. FML
Today, I burned my butt on the heater when I tried to warm up after my shower. FML
Today, I spilt a very hot cup of tea all over a burn I got yesterday from spilling a very hot cup of tea. FML
Today, I spilt boiling tea all over my stomach and left leg, so I went to the hospital to get it checked out. They said I wouldn't be able to expose it to the sun for the next two months. I'm going to Barbados tomorrow. FML
Today, I made a cup of tea at work. Whilst talking to a workmate, I took a sip of the tea, which I had forgotten was boiling hot, and laughed at the same time, causing it to come out of my nose. I have blistered my whole mouth and even burnt my nostrils. FML
Today, I was applying some Icy Hot to my sore thighs, when I accidentally got a little on my dime sacks. For the next hour, it felt like someone had lit a match under my plums. FML
Today, while cooking, I managed to burn my finger. I quickly turned the tap on and ran my finger under cold water, but apparently someone had just used the hot tap, because boiling water flooded out onto my nicely scalded finger. FML
Today, I burned my left breast with hot oil at work. Everyone's now calling me "toaster strudel" and singing "This girl is on fire" every time we cross paths. FML
Walk it off
Today, while helping my wife clean the bathroom, I stepped in a puddle of neat bleach she'd randomly left by the shower door. I washed it off straight away but now an hour later I have burns on the bottom of my foot and can’t put weight on it. FML
BURNED
Today, I reheated leftover pasta at work. I forgot to crack a vent on the container and it exploded in the microwave. Sauce coated the inside, so I spent my lunch break scrubbing while coworkers waited awkwardly to heat their food. The smell is still hanging in the office air. FML
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mpsteve137 15
Duh it didnt work. You forgot to add the mayonnaise.
greenwich1945 13
Your coworker sounds like a dick.
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FrankHotpants 31
I was not aware the mustard seed contained healing properties.
sacredeye73 11
Mustard is good for burns. Specifically, it's the mustard seeds and vinegar that helps to soothe the burn and promote healing :-)
jnchristensen 8
mustard... sure, doctors are always prescribing mustard
jackeechan 10
Cold water.
hateevryone 15
Im sure it did smell like hot dogs.
iloveursister 4
Did you know that the word Orange sounds like gullible? go ahead and try it
SwtCherryPie 26
Mustard helps soothe small burns and helps to keep it from blistering. So in a sense your coworker was correct but on such a large scale mustard isnt going to help you any.
Rianokami 22
The whole boiling water on legs sucks, but YDI for believing mustard would cure the burn. Your co-worker is an ass, but you're pretty stupid to actually believe him.
sammyluvspugs 4
Aw i've spilled boiling water on myself b4 ik it's horrible...Sry but the hotdogs part is pretty funny.
Eve50 5
Please don't put any mustard (nor vinegar, ketchup, mayonnaise, egg white or toothpaste) on burns, or any other wounds for that matter. In burns the skin is damaged and putting mustard on it could infect it. (vinegar could be used as a home remedy disinfectant on small wounds/insect bites, but rather use medical stuff that's made for that purpose). I'm a medical student and also teach first aid. In the Netherlands there's a slogan made up by a specialised burncentre: eerst water, de rest komt later; which translates to: water first, after that it's time for the rest. Preferably you use lukewarm running water , but all water that's 'round body temp or lower would suffice (not directly on burned area, just a little above it). Don't use ice, because than you might end up with frostbite, which does the same type of damage to the skin as burns. Special remark on using water when trying to extinguish flames: if nothing else is around but ditchwater, use ditchwater anyways, because the risk of infection isn't outweighed by more damage the fire can still do. And roll, not run. When a large area is burned, the hot skin can burn neighbouring skin, so that must be stopped by cooling the burn down, when nothing else is nearby, you can therefore use ditchwater as well. For transportation to the hospital you can use any clean cloth (preferably not giving of fibres, or when you have sterile gauze, use that) that's saturated with water (evaporating water cools down). When do you need to contact a doctor: - when over 9 percent of your body is covered in 2nd or 3rd degree burns (an arm is roundabout 9 percent, handpalm resembles 1 percent, when estimating percentage, always use patients measurements) - all 3rd degree burns (3rd degree burns are recognisable by black or white discolouration, usually surrounded by 2nd degree burns recognisable by blisters) - burns by electricity (and lightning) - chemical burns - burns in functional areas such as face, hands, joints or genitals - burns surrounding a part of the body (bracelet-like, forming a ring around a body part such as arms, legs, neck or chest - burns in your airways. Always leave blisters intact, the thin layer of skin that remains will prevent infection. When cooling a person with a large area of burns, be aware of hypothermia Thanks for reading all of this info and I hope you will never need this information...
Eve50 5
Oh, forgot to mention: chemical burns should be cooled and rinsed for a minimum of 30 minutes. "Normal" burns should be cooled for at least 10 minutes, but longer when it still feels like burning.