Tipking Research Paper

TipKing is a site that provides tips for various categories such as beauty, health, getting organized, cleaning, laundry, and several others. Within TipKing’s health section, there is a collection of 914 tips that make up the seven subcategories. The newest health subcategory is remedies. According to TipKing, there are several things you can do to help relieve the pain of a minor burn and also speed up the healing process. Among the twenty-one possible burn remedies, I found that putting butter on a minor burn to help heal the burn immediately to be quite unusual. The submission, “Use butter on a minor burn” made by Roxy, http://www.tipking.co.uk/tip/7396.html, states that “If you suffer a minor burn on your hand, put a generous load of

Most minor burns will heal on their own without any forms of treatment. However, if you would like to relieve yourself of some pain, applying cool water to the burn immediately will help alleviate the pain, minimize the damage and the chance of infections while speeding up the healing process. Additionally, cool water is gentler in removing the heat that is trapped in the skin. Also, while rinsing the burn under water, you should remove any clothing that is near the burn to avoid any further swelling or damage to the skin. Once the burn is cooled down, you can then assess the burn and the severity of the burn in order to determine what type of treatment is needed. It is important to figure out the severity of the burn to know if you can treat it yourself at home or if you need to seek medical attention. If the burn is treatable at home then you should gently dry the burned area and wrap it loosely in gauze or a non-adhesive Band-Aid. Also, a burn should be kept dry and clean so putting any type of ointment will prolong the healing process. Lastly, if a burn starts to blister, the blister is not to be popped as they can open up the skin to infection. If the skin opens up and becomes exposed, then you should apply an antibiotic cream, otherwise you should not apply anything extra to a burn because it will slow the healing