Lack of scientific basis
Many folk burn remedies lack scientific basis, which is not only difficult to ensure the therapeutic effect, but also may cause unnecessary harm. Scientific medical treatment is the right choice for burns.
Delaying treatment leads to deeper injury.
Scalding is a dynamic pathological process, and timely cooling treatment can reduce tissue damage. It can be avoided that the use of folk remedies leads to delay and deepens the damage of deep or even lower skin tissue.
Increased risk of infection
Scalding will destroy the skin barrier and increase the chance of bacterial infection. Delayed treatment will further increase the risk of infection, which can lead to wound infection or tetanus, which is life-threatening.
It is difficult to determine complications.
It is difficult to define the depth and scope of scald by folk prescription treatment, it is difficult to find and treat scald complications in time, and it also increases the complexity of the disease.
Negative educational function
Parents choose to use folk remedies, which delays their children's treatment and has a poor effect on their health education, thus affecting their future medical choices.
Scientific medical treatment is the most important.
Although parents may choose because they believe in folk remedies or hope to reduce the medical burden, it is unwise to use folk remedies to delay regular medical treatment and lead to aggravated burns. For children, timely and scientific medical treatment is the most important.
Strengthen the popularization of science
Medical staff should actively explain the importance of professional medical care to parents and give the best treatment to severely burned children. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the popularization of science, improve their ability to distinguish medical science from folk remedies, and avoid similar cases.