What to do if oil splashes on your skin and causes blisters

Accidents are inevitable when people are cooking or making other foods. For example, when frying food, there is a high chance that the oil will splash onto your skin. When oil splashes onto the skin, bubbles will form. This is because the boiling oil is too hot and causes a certain degree of damage to the skin surface. Therefore, we must pay special attention to the occurrence of this situation and master certain methods to prevent or treat the consequences of this situation. So what should you do if your skin is splashed with oil and blisters appear?

1. What to do if oil splashes on your skin

Step 1. Rinse immediately with cool water

Rinse the burned skin area splashed with oil with clean running water. It is generally recommended to rinse for 20 minutes. What should you do if oil splashes on your face? You can apply a cold compress to your face with a clean towel.

In addition, because the skin is usually splashed with hot oil, you must use cool water to rinse the skin, and the water flow should not be too fast to avoid rinsing damaged skin. Flowing cold water can quickly remove local heat and reduce further heat damage.

Step 2. Soak in water or apply cold compress for 20 minutes

Whether your face or hands are splashed with oil and burned, you can rinse with cold water and then soak the burned area in cold water for 10 to 30 minutes. This can relieve the pain of being splashed with hot oil and prevent the hot oil from dissipating further heat.

If the oil splashes on the face and hands, you can also use a pure spray for cold spray. The recommended sprays are: Uriage spray and Avène spray.

Step 3. Cover with sterile gauze to reduce infection

What should you do if oil splashes onto your skin? After the above treatment, cover the wound with a clean or sterile gauze or towel and secure it to keep the wound clean and reduce bacterial infection.

The skin splashed with hot oil is generally fragile because the cells in the stratum corneum will die in large numbers. Covering it with sterile gauze can isolate it from external pollution to a certain extent.

Step 4. Go to hospital in serious cases

The severity of the condition depends on the temperature of the heat source and how long the skin is in contact with the heat source. If the oil splashes on important parts of your body and the affected skin (not just your hands and face) quickly develops blisters, it is necessary to go to the hospital and consult a burn specialist in time.

2. Do not use folk remedies to treat areas splashed with oil