The Pharmacology and Toxicology Department at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Basrah organized a panel discussion entitled (Understanding Burn Injury and New Methods of Burning) with the participation of researchers and specialists.
The panel discussion included a lecture given by Assistant Lecturer Rasha Naseer, in which she explained that burns are tissue damage resulting from heat, chemicals, electricity, radiation, or the sun. Third-degree burns can be life-threatening and require professional medical care.
  Burn symptoms depend on the cause and type of burn
   First-degree burns have red, painful skin, and second-degree burns have red, painful skin
   Swelling of either the third degree is white, black, dark red, or charred skin.
First aid is summarized by cooling the burn with cold or lukewarm running water for 20 minutes, and then covering the burn with clean gauze. The pain resulting from burns is treated with paracetamol or ibuprofen.
  The treatment of second and first degree burns is similar. An antibiotic, such as silver sulfadiazine, can be used to kill the bacteria. Third-degree burns are life-threatening and often require skin grafts, where a skin graft replaces damaged tissue with healthy skin from another, uninjured part of a person's body.

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