So I was at work at the Macaroni Grill on Sunday, when one of the iron skillets I was delivering slid down the tray right into my neck/jaw area on the left side of my face.

Needless to say, the 1200 degree skillet burned my skin, not as bad as it could have (no blisters or anything like that), but left notable discoloration on the side of my face. I put the burn salve we had at work on it immediately. Ever since then, I've been putting Bactine and Neosporin on it.

Is there anything else I should do to offset the discoloration? I've been thinking of going to the tanning booth at my gym, which would make everything darker, but maybe make things a little bit more even.

Or I could just wait a year for the skin to exfoliate and even out, I don't know.

7/31/2007 5:05:38 PM

how about you give it another week to heal.

7/31/2007 5:10:42 PM

seriously.

tanning bed on a fresh burn? wtf, dude

7/31/2007 5:17:07 PM

clean it and use some aloe and take an aspirin for the pain and redness

7/31/2007 5:20:09 PM

I get a little weird and paranoid about scars. I'm a performing artist. I talked to some of the girls at work who deal with burns all the time. Their stuff goes away in about two weeks. They do have the estrogen advantage, but yeah, I'll chill out for the time being.

7/31/2007 5:21:10 PM

if its really just a first degree burn you arent going to have any scars, unless maybe you go and do some stupid shit like lay in a tanning bed and make it worse

7/31/2007 5:24:38 PM

my roommate was burned in a similar way and unfortunately the discoloration never completely went away--so if it really bothers you, you might end up having to have it lasered or something

7/31/2007 5:27:05 PM

give it time to heal, keep it clean, and don't use a tanning bed. should be just fine and shouldn't leave any scars.

7/31/2007 5:34:07 PM

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"Minor burns usually heal without further treatment. They may heal with pigment changes, meaning the healed area may be a different color from the surrounding skin. Watch for signs of infection, such as increased pain, redness, fever, swelling or oozing. If infection develops, seek medical help. Avoid re-injuring or tanning if the burns are less than a year old — doing so may cause more extensive pigmentation changes. Use sunscreen on the area for at least a year."

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/first-aid-burns/FA00022

[Edited on July 31, 2007 at 5:38 PM. Reason : .]

7/31/2007 5:37:31 PM

why are so many "performing artist" really just waiters or waitresses in a delusional state

7/31/2007 5:38:41 PM

Go get an aloe plant and rub some fresh aloe on it... if nothing else it will make it feel better

[Edited on July 31, 2007 at 5:48 PM. Reason : .]

7/31/2007 5:48:01 PM

Wrong Type of Burn

[Edited on July 31, 2007 at 5:54 PM. Reason : fdsfsd]

7/31/2007 5:53:44 PM

in burns 3>2>1

7/31/2007 5:54:56 PM

^ I caught myself

7/31/2007 5:55:21 PM

^^ as opposed to normal circumstances where 3<2<1?

7/31/2007 5:56:04 PM

^ burn degrees are opposite of murder degrees


most people get confused about this

[Edited on July 31, 2007 at 6:00 PM. Reason : ;]

7/31/2007 5:59:59 PM

1st degree murder is more severe than 3rd degree
1st degree sun burn is less severe than 3rd degree

[Edited on July 31, 2007 at 6:00 PM. Reason : jeeze by 2 seconds ]

7/31/2007 6:00:01 PM

that is sorta confusing. They should be the same.

7/31/2007 6:52:44 PM

an unnecessary lawsuit against macaroni grill would make me feel a lot better in your situation.

7/31/2007 7:03:23 PM

Hah tanning bed on a fresh burn, why don't you try the gem of critical thinking and get back to us on it.

7/31/2007 7:13:24 PM

Why is the Macaroni Grill encouraging serving food on trays anyway? The restaurant I worked at in PA, we did hand service only. The presentation is better, and you don't have a crazy skillet sliding toward your face on a shoulder height tray.

7/31/2007 10:23:53 PM

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"r I could just wait a year for the skin to exfoliate"

guys don't say exfoliate

7/31/2007 10:42:16 PM

Spontaneous you need to go hit up the tanning bed on that fresh burn wound - you fucking idiot. You need to grow a brain and stop burning yourself.

In the future if you ever do something horribly stupid like this again, do NOT post it on the wolfweb, and even better do NOT post your moronic solutions like going to a tanning bed to deal with a burn.

Golly I hope someone kicks you in the nuts just for being so stupid.

7/31/2007 11:09:55 PM

nobody needs to kick him because if he keeps up like this, he'll end up hurting himself worse anyways.

7/31/2007 11:13:37 PM

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"seriously. tanning bed on a fresh burn? wtf, dude"

7/31/2007 11:22:18 PM

No.

Quote :

"tanning bed on a fresh burn? wtf, dude"

7/31/2007 11:28:12 PM

triple antibiotic ointment

this is from a guy who got his face burned bad by a torch that exploded in 7th grade (no i wasnt playing with it, it blew a seal)

thats what they told my dad and i both when we got burned about a month apart

8/1/2007 12:18:57 AM

tanning...on a burn.

Thank you for making my goddamned night.

That said- scarring depends a lot on the person. I scar super easy and it wont fade for a couple years, other folks have no problem, if you dont scar for every little cut, i wouldnt worry too much.

8/1/2007 12:41:05 AM

guys use tanning beds?

8/1/2007 1:10:54 AM

don't want a farmer's tan on mah johnson now, or it'll start looking like a rainbow

8/1/2007 9:48:01 AM

I just wanted to jump on the train and say tanning with a fresh burn is full of lolz

Also if the skillet was 1200 degrees and it even touched your face you would have dropped the whole lot and ended up with something way worse than 1'st degree.

[Edited on August 1, 2007 at 8:12 PM. Reason : why are the skillets so damn hot, or are you making up numbers?]

8/1/2007 8:07:56 PM

yes

there is no way that anything in a kitchen could even begin to approach 1200 degrees F

8/1/2007 8:32:29 PM

^ Fire

8/1/2007 9:20:41 PM

1200 degree skillets.

LOLZ

performance artist, indeed.

two words: Shut. Thefuckup.



(and why are you using trays at Macaroni Grill anyhow? i waited at the Cary store from opening day for 1.5 years, there were never any trays. trays are counter to the restaurant's culture )

8/1/2007 9:27:03 PM

I'm not sure how to treat your burn, and I hope that it heals with no scarring


but the sight of that must have been hilarious

8/1/2007 9:29:55 PM

there was a thread about this a while ago, lemme find it


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http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=468473



i ended up scanning this in from my emt-n00b textbook from forever ago.

[Edited on August 2, 2007 at 1:28 PM. Reason : found it]

8/2/2007 1:27:07 PM

Burning a burn sounds like an EXCELLENT idea for treatment.


I'd suggest taking a vitamin E supplement until it is healed.

8/2/2007 1:43:00 PM

So here's a recap:

Quote :

"performing artist ...Macaroni Grill...1200 degree skillet...discoloration...going to the tanning booth....exfoliate"

Spontaneous, I think you clearly have the "estrogen advantage"

8/2/2007 1:44:23 PM

Just don't pick at it.

8/2/2007 5:11:34 PM

^^hahaha and his name is lance too

8/2/2007 5:16:01 PM

If it is a first degree burn then it won't scar because the injury is not extending past the epidermis. The fact that there was no associated blistering indicates that it is most likely afirst degree burn, and will neither damage your skin nor your vanity.

8/3/2007 10:07:01 PM

I've got worse scars from small, casual burns where I had no blisters than from when I fell on a lit kerosene heater and seared the shit out of my leg.

I know you said 'most likely', but some people scar if you look at them cross-eyed

But since he was thinking about tanning a burn, I have zero sympathy.

8/3/2007 10:33:22 PM

tanning bed on a fresh burn? wtf, dude

you must really WANT scars if you're dumb enough to think up this cunning plan

8/3/2007 11:39:57 PM

i would assume he meant tanning the area *around* the burn... you know, by covering the burn area, so it's voided during the tan.

but still...

the waitstaff/drama-queen/performance-artist 1200-degree skillet thing is retarded as all fuck.

this is in the running for stupidest Lounge thread 2007.

8/4/2007 2:29:04 AM