Burn Injury

I think it would soon be a trend for me as I wouldn't know that some action done can cause injury. This time it is a pure carelessness from myself. Who say that steam wouldn't burn? It burns and it burns like you are being lit by fire I think. Due to my carelessness, I got myself burn.

I arrange my kitchen in a way where all the cables and extension power strip are behind the kitchen appliances. I had a extension power strip behind my rice cooker. I was cooking rice and the rice was just cooked when I wanted to switch the oven where the swtich is on the extension power strip. 

My hand went over the rice cooker, where it is keeping my rice warm, to the power strip when I felt a burning sensation. It was then I realize that my hand was burning from the steam release from the rice cooker. I think I was dumb not to know that even when the rice is cook, there is still steam being release from the rice cooker. 

Once I felt the pain, I quickly went to the basin and turn the tap on. I left my hand under the running cold water for a bout 2-3 minutes. Even after that the burn feeling is still there. This is a painful lesson to learn from my own carelessness. What make it worst is, I was told that the best thing to do was to pour soya sauce on the burn part instead of wash it under cold water. If not, take toothpaste and put it on the burn part. 

 I do not know why but I was told that if I wash it under cold water, my skin can just peel off. I didn't really believe them. Today which is the 3rd day from the day I got burn, the burn part is very dry and the skin is peeling off. Besides that, it looks like a bruise with very dry skin. This is bad. I do not know what else to do now but to put lotion so that it would moisture the skin and hopefully it would then heal nicely and not leave a mark.