How do you capture internal burns?
A friend of mine recently said that he had received internal burns from trying to reading light a grill with lighter fluid. He said the flames traveled up the stream and burnt his obverse and chest. According to him he was in a coma for six days next to fifth degree burns and needed money sent for his wife to get rear home. The other day I saw him without his shirt and didn't thought any scarring. This is when he informed me that the burns were internal. I'm under the dent that the only way to attain internal burns is through an electrical burn and that the worst degree burn one could receive was third. I'm trying to crease information about burns so I can figure out whether or not I've be had. Any help on ths business would be greatly appriciated.
Answer: Your friend is lying.
There are 3 ways to get "internal burns"-
- Inhalation of superheated gasses (i.e. fire, steam, etc)
- Electrical
- Chemical (i.e. bleach, Drano, etc)
What he's describing sounds like a burn cause by the splashing of a flammable liquid. That type of incident would leave an external burn. An internal burn from that type of incident would enjoy required him inhaling superheated gasses and damaging his lungs. In addition external burns severe satisfactory to put a person in a "coma" for six days would enjoy to be fairly extensive. Internal burns sufficient to do the same would enjoy likely proved fatal since they would own caused severe damage to the airways & lungs. He would be contained by the hospital for a LONG time, as in MONTHS (possibly >1yr).
There are actually SIX degree of burns, most people just don't know more or less the ones above third degree because they're relatively rare.
A rapid anatomy lesson on the skin as it relates to burns:
From outside to inside the layers are skin>fat>fascia>muscle>bone
They are (examples are only approximate to illustrate the levels)-
- First Degree: mild reddening of the skin (i.e. sunburn, mild hot dampen, etc)
- Second Degree: blistering of the skin, damage to fatty layers (i.e. severe sunburn, mild chemical, hot wet, etc)
- Third Degree: Charring of the superficial layers, but muscle undamaged (i.e. short direct flame, severe chemical, etc)
- Fourth Degree: Destruction of fascia and damage to muscle tissue(i.e. direct flame, phosphorus, steam, etc)
- Fifth Degree: Muscle tissue destroyed, bone exposed (i.e. prolonged direct flame, severe phosphorous, etc)
- Sixth Degree: Bone exposed & splintered, limb may be "vaporised" (i.e. very prolonged direct flame, pyroclastic flow, etc)
If your friend really had "fifth degree" burns to his chest here would literally have been holes where on earth his lungs would have been evident. A fifth degree burn to a limb REQUIRES amputation, and one to the chest is virtually other fatal. A sixth degree burn, even to an extremity, is almost universaly deadly.
For more info see-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn
- David.
ur friend is a liar...
that just sounds dumb!