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
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was cleaning a pan. I turned the water on, and it was super hot. My reaction was to slam my hand down. On a knife. So, not only do I have a burned hand, but there's also a huge cut on it from the knife. FML
Today, I got burned, all because the toaster scared me while I was holding a pot of boiling water. FML
Today, I managed to spill piping hot oil all over my kitchen floor, thinking it was too hot to clean right then and there I left it for a few hours to cool. I forgot about it, and slipped over in it bashing my head into my cupboard handle. FML
Today, I burnt my finger making pancakes for my kid. After hopping around and running the blister under cold water, I went back to finish making the pancakes and burned the same finger right on top of the new blister. An hour later it burst and the flesh is a funny colour underneath. FML
Today, as I was trying to remove my lunch from the hot oven tray, my finger brushed against the metal for a moment, and I instinctively put it in my mouth. I burnt my tongue, on my finger. I didn't realize that was possible. 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 was cooking. I leaned over the stove to preheat the oven, and burned my nipple on a pot of boiling water. I also have a teething son who is breastfeeding. FML
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 myself while cooking, so I asked my mom to get the burn cream while I waited in the kitchen. While I was waiting, I absentmindedly set my hand on the hot stove, earning myself a second burn. FML
Today, I was pouring boiling water into a cup, and I accidentally spilled it all over my hand. My mother responded by slapping me for getting water everywhere. My hand is scorched red, but thanks, I love you too, mother. FML
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Faatz 4
Burn baby burn!
gingerfly91 1
Ahem, scalded* Yes, I did just become one of those people.
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brohamas16 7
outta the frying pan and into the fire.....or boiling hot water
DUBSTEP_WUB_WUB 1
Remember when commenting on a persons comment used to have something to do with the persons comment now people do it just to get to the top
SkoomaKi 28
I'll see your banana and raise you a turtle.
Psych101 9
Remember when commenting on an FML had something to do with the FML?
linkinpark98 24
Now you know what steamed vegetables feel like... c:
yankeegrl27 1
well thats unfortunate
poisonfish 3
I've heard that hot water is better for burns...or am I just crazy?
keylimecat87 3
Never heard that one before. You're probably thinking of how warm water freezes faster than cold water. True story.
e_r_i_c_a 4
I have heard that room temperature water was the best. If someone Is actually badly burned all over if you put them in cold water their body can like go in shock from the temperature change, but when someone burns their finger it probably doesn't matter much.
jesustitts 20
Finally someone who knows the right way! It's warm water because it won't shock the skin. Cold water or ice will cause further damage. When I was 2 1/2 my brothers and sister and I were playing outside near a fire that had just started to go down so it was only embers left well I fell in them and burnt my hands do bad I almost lost three fingers. My mom put my hands on ice and my skin basically peeled off.
mckibben 7
Its hot water because it draws the heat from the burn. Its the same with sunburn.
TheMathMajor 26
I've always heard the best thing is cool running water. You want to gradually get the skin back to normal temperature, so nothing cold, but hot water wouldn't do anything. Room temp is best.
Hiimhaileypotter 53
#30- I actually got extra credit for proving to my 5th grade teacher that warm water freezes faster than cold water, because she didn't believe me at first.
twitchtail 21
That's not actually true. It just seems like it because of the more noticeable change in temperature at the start. Once they get to a certain degree, they freeze at the same amount of time.
perdix 31
The good news is that you ARE in the kitchen.
jesustitts 20
You're supposed to use warn water not cold.
jesustitts 20
Warm*
alissa222 15
Oh hun, no, you're not. It ice you shouldn't use. Running Cold water over it for 15 to 20 minutes is highly recommended.
jesustitts 20
No, cold water will shock the skin. And honestly I like to just let my burns just stop on their own because I found using anything other then burn ointment is only temporary. The pain comes back worse. For me anyway.
ellytoad 13
You read "boiling" and you think "nice and warm"?
alissa222 15
Unless the mayo clinic doesn't know their shit, then cold water is fine, its ice straight on the burn you shouldnt use. Trust me, I just went through this research last night. Oil burns on fingertips aren't fun.
jesustitts 20
Warm water. Seriously. Or at least water that isn't "cold" if it's cool it's fine cold is bad. So is ice, butter, margarine, bandaids, etc. The best idea is to do nothing. The pain subsides quickly if it's just a simple first or second degree burn. If its second degree, watch out for that blister!!
alissa222 15
I suppose cool makes sense, sense ice clod water would be the same as ice. I apologize for my comments from before too, I just read me over and realized how rude they sounded. I guess I was just taking from "holy shit that warm water hurts!" I just experienced before I wrote them. ^_^
jesustitts 20
It's all good dude.
sougstad 7
Can you imagine what it feels like to be a crab?
alissa222 15
Try wrapping the burn in foil OP. leave it overnight. I don't know why it works, but it does.
jesustitts 20
That would be a challenge. As the skin would be sore and foil gets pointy. But it seems it would work a little. It also seems a bad idea, foil traps the heat.
alissa222 15
It actually didn't poke at all, surprisingly enough. I don't know if it was the best for it, but it sure took away the pain I had been having for the past few hours in a matter of minutes. :D
mckibben 7
103 that's the point. trapping the heat in the foil draws the heat from the burn which takes away the pain.
jesustitts 20
Ahh. I never thought of that haha.
killerkirsche 12
don't use cold water if you burn yourself..the difference is to strong....a mix of cold and a bit of warm water is better