I think it's worth pointing out that the soot that's left after burning seems to have a very negative effect on the healing process I recomenend vigourous scrubbing after the show with auyrevedic soap
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Mon, May 12, 2008 - 9:34 AMI just did a two minute google search on this thought, and wasn't able to find anything. I'm sure I could were I to contribute more than a couple of minutes to it, but I'm at work. Perhaps somebody can dig a little on this matter.
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Tue, May 13, 2008 - 2:14 PMHey Jumbly, what fuel are you burning?
Spain isn't California, and the avaliable fuels are generally nasty or expensive. If memory serves me right, camping supply places had MSR or Primus or Svea fuel (equivalent to coleman white gas) for around 6.50 euro a LITER. keep in mind, I was spending around E4.50 a week on food. Most people I met in Barcelona spun with either pump gas (Benzena) or parrafin (aigua/agua parrafina). Pretty much no one bought the firewater french stuff from the juggling shop, as it was 3.50 a liter. I spun almost all parrafin with the exception of one drunk night when an Austrian guy offered me fuel, and it turned out to be pump gas. After that, I was compleatly covered in soot, filthy, disgusting, smelled like an old motorcycle, and had a nasty sinus infection. If you are mostly spinning pump gas, Sure as hell, you probably need some astringent soap.
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Mon, May 12, 2008 - 7:29 PMMaybe I'm just low on my 'acting like' an asshole quota for the year, but, um, what? I mean, yeah, maybe washing that burn off with soap is a good idea. I'm pretty sure established practice is typically to cool and clean the burn. Vigorous scrubbing, maybe not so much, that is a point that could be argued, but um, ayurvedic soap? Regular soap won't do?
Do I really need to inject some hindu nationalist mysticism into my home hygiene products now, too? Look, I'm all for people having whatever healing crystal/homeopathic/jesus-based belief system that keeps them out of publicly funded hospitals, sort of a darwinistic way to decide how tax dollars get spent on medicine (on that note, please feel free not to vaccinate your offspring, I hear that whooping cough is easy to cure with lavender oil). Go ahead and shun my evidence-based view of medicine, feel free to reiki your way to better health all you want- but I'm going to have to draw the line at magic healing soap (which just happens to often be contaminated with "detoxified" heavy metals). I just won't stand for it. If we let you have soap, who knows what you'll go after next (my guess in plumbing and sanitation).
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Seriously, some of these "alternative" treatments are toxic. The silence of a educated person on such matters in tantamount to endorsement. -
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Mon, May 12, 2008 - 7:50 PMI would tend to agree that regular old mild soap would be sufficient in wound cleansing after a burn. Soap and water. Water and soap. And don't use any ointments while a burn is still fresh. Ointments have oils that retain heat. And hydrogen peroxide is bad bad bad for wound healing. I know we weren't talking about hydrogen peroxide, but I thought i'd throw that out there as well. -
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Mon, May 12, 2008 - 10:52 PMLisa, your comments are well thought out and received. I agree with you fully
Silence, your comments are well thought out and received. You owe me a glass of ice water and a rag for drying my monitor.
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Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:41 PM1. yay silence
2. The treatment of your burn highly depends on the severity of the burn. Although, I suppose if the burn is really bad, the part of the skin that had the soot on it would probably be burned of... -
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Tue, May 13, 2008 - 10:48 AMI'm a big fan of Hair Conditioner. Right after a burn better than burn cream. Conditioner is freaky crap... It aids the removal or I should say it weakens the bonds of the human body. the reason that there are "leave in conditioners" is because normal ones will let you pull your hair or fingernails or flesh off if you soak them in it for a while. This is how they do fingernail augmentation (SCAIRY PROCESS).
Anyway get burnt, clean it if you can stand it, slop on some conditioner instead of burn cream and wrap it up. Few days/applications later you can take the whole scab and all surounding half dead tissue off without pain its like skinning a rotten tomato. All that is left is non branded/scared brand new pink flesh. Now try to just tan that part.
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