Hot Water Bottle burst over me :(

[OldComputerGuy7]

ouch made me wince, you have my sympathies looks painful.

 

[robfosters]

Electric blankets > hot water bottles.

 

[itchy]

You should rub butter into it, it will replace the lost oils that have been evaporated and help with healing. The oil in the butter will help you and the salt in the butter will help with sterilization.

My advise would be get a micro electric blanket for you hernia problems.

To be honest cannot believe people still use hot water bottles!

Mind you in my day it was a Alpine lemonade bottle wrapped in a towel.

OUCH! by the way that looks painfull.

 

[Dis86]

You should rub butter into it, it will replace the lost oils that have been evaporated and help with healing. The oil in the butter will help you and the salt in the butter will help with sterilization.

I'm all for basting my meats but dude...long pork?

 

[robfosters]

To be honest cannot believe people still use hot water bottles!

Me neither. They just seem so old fashioned, like something people took to bed before central heating and double glazing, otherwise they would have rigor mortis within 10 minutes.

 

[TheOtherOption]

Looks painful alright - hope it heals quickly!!

Not used a hot water bottle in years - probably not since I was very little in fact!

 

[itchy]

I'm all for basting my meats but dude...long pork?

Soft butter or margarine works wonders for burns.

Also helps with reducing scarring.

 

[robfosters]

Soft butter or margarine works wonders for burns.

Also helps with reducing scarring.

And friction burns.

Need some on your old chap and some on your misses knees.

 

[itchy]

And friction burns.

Need some on your old chap and some on your misses knees.

I use Mr Vaseline on the old feller, if she requires a frivolous evening between the sheets we cannot have the old chap stink of rancid butter now can we?

 

[koolpc]

Luke will be along shortly to say you shouldn't have called an ambulance out for that!

 

[Neil79]

Luke will be along shortly to say you shouldn't have called an ambulance out for that!

I didn't scroll up

 

[FoxEye]

People still use hot water bottles?

Cheaper than heating the house!

Although our house is so cold a hot water bottle on its own doesn't cut it, so we all sit on the sofa wrapped in a sleeping bag *and* a hot water bottle underneath.

Our house insulation is so bad there's literally (almost) no point in putting the heating on. It just goes straight through the vents in the walls (which are a safety feature? Odd I don't see them in other houses), out the windows, out the single-block walls... it's a losing battle.

Much better to just worry about warming a little pocket of air in a sleep bag cocoon And that's what we do...

 

[Neil79]

Happened to me with a kettle when I was 11.. I'd rather brake bones then get burnt.. feel for ya

I said the same thing

 

[FoxEye]

Me neither. They just seem so old fashioned, like something people took to bed before central heating and double glazing, otherwise they would have rigor mortis within 10 minutes.

You know that much of the housing stock in this country pre-dates modern building regs, and has poor thermal insulation...

And to fix it would cost many thousand times the cost of a hot water bottle.

Just think about it for a second

 

[Buckster]

ouch - feel for you - I burnt myself knocking over my freshly filled caffetiere (750ml one) all over my leg earlier in the year - it felt like knifes digging into my leg I was shocked how much it hurt vs knocking some coffee on me

<edit> sorry missed the bit that said you'd got it checked out

After standing in the shower with cold water on the whole leg for 30 minutes - a friend of mine took me to A&E - I must have looked pretty pale as he said don't pass out on me

Mine was a mix of first degree and 3 patches of Partial Thickness 2nd Degree burns - the 2nd Degree burns still looked "wet" when dressings replaced up to a week later

there is no scar left after 8 months, and it doesn't hurt, but if some materials catch it and if I have a hot bath I can "feel" that that area is not right

it has made me much more cautious of boiling water tbh - I've spilt coffee on me etc loads of times, but when its a volume of boiling water - its very different - I'm extra careful in the kitchen now with pans of boiling water etc

 

[edscdk]

That looks nasty.

Manufacturers always say not to fill more than 2/3rds, to expel any air and not to use boiling water.

Lots of people make the mistake of using boiling water, I'm not old enough to need a hwb yet but when I'm 70 I'll properly fill it with boiling water because I NEVER read instructions!

 

[FoxEye]

ouch - feel for you - I burnt myself knocking over my freshly filled caffetiere (750ml one) all over my leg earlier in the year - it felt like knifes digging into my leg

you need to get it checked out ASAP - I went to A&E with mine - they cleaned it all up etc - but more importantly is depending on how bad the burn is to get it dressed - as it will heal but you must not get it infected

Melolin wound dressing pads is what they will give you. After washing the wound.

You don't need to go to A&E unless you've lost a lot of skin (I did as a child, all the skin on both knees after dropping a cauldron of boiling oil over myself... very clever).

Melolin is available from supermarkets/ pharmacies.

 

[robfosters]

My mum used to have a teddy or something with beads in that you microwaved for a minute or two. That was lovely. Safer than a hot water bottle. i think it was called a Bed bear or something like that.

 

[Neil79]

I'm going back to wheat bags, they may stink but at least they don't do this!

 

[Raymond Lin]

This is what I fear and why I would never have one.

ouch OP!