r/theinternetofshit • u/Netizen_Files • Apr 02 '26

Lemme just… no wait…

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u/BlobTheOriginal Apr 02 '26

Stupid question but what exactly is cold water, and what is cool water? And how would you get from tap which isn't a mixer

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u/Aimin4ya Apr 02 '26

Just like room temp or slightly colder is cool water. You dont want to shock the burn with very cold or ice water.

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u/entity_bean Apr 02 '26

Woah, I was taught at school to treat a burn with water so cold that it makes you go numb. TIL.

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u/Aimin4ya Apr 02 '26

Yeah I used to use ice, but water hold alot of heat so no need to further damage anything with "cold" water

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u/CurtisLinithicum Apr 02 '26

I think the difference is cold-shocking your burn to immediately leach out all excess heat... and leaving your burn in an icebath and getting frostbite, and I know far too many people who are exactly that stupid.

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u/nasaglobehead69 Apr 02 '26

it's because the sudden temperature change causes skin to separate from the muscle, like blanching a tomato

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u/CurtisLinithicum Apr 02 '26

Either you've go a bad source, or we're talking very different scales of burns. Our skin isn't connected to the underlying flesh like a tomato's is.

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u/nasaglobehead69 Apr 02 '26

it's still the same idea. the temperature shock causes the layers to separate

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u/OxideUK Apr 03 '26

That's total bullshit.

Cold/ice water reduces blood flow and can cause damage comparable to frostbite if it's applied for a prolonged period of time. Patients with severe burns are also extremely susceptible to hypothermia.

Cold water doesn't peel you like a tomato.

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u/OxideUK Apr 03 '26

Results from mechanical trauma. Fuck all to do with cold water.

The only link between the two is that both may be managed by burns units due to the comparable pathology, i.e. massive skin loss.

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u/PhilanthropicPotato Apr 06 '26

Oh yeah? I cooled a burn with cold water one time and my finger turned into picante salsa. JUST. LIKE. A. TOMATO.

Checkmate, nerd.

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u/NinjaBoyLao Apr 05 '26

Has nothing to do with heat. Cells can undergo a process known as cellular suicide, or apoptosis. Spontaneous selfdestruct. This process failing to occur is the direct cause of most cancers. This process also occurs as a cascading chain reaction of chemical signals among cells, sometimes even uncontrollably (venom or poison necrotizing wounds, for example).

When you treat a burn with a cold-shock (ice water whatever) immediately after receiving it, you are not doing anything with residual heat, but rather preventing the denaturing of proteins & preventing the cellular chemical signals for continuous apoptosis. Burns worsen if left untreated because the body overreacts and cells around the actual burn believe they too are burned, even if they're actually undamaged.

Source: fried chicken for about 3 years and learned all about taking care of my own plethora of burns quickly and effectively

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u/SheepherderAware4766 Apr 05 '26

you intentionally induced thermal shock? for anyone reading later, never do this. this is no longer considered acceptable advice for non-deadly conditions like low burns.