Can a 1st/2nd/3rd degree burn be poisonous?
No. Burns come in three varieties: 1st Degree: This burn is typically your garden variety sunburn, or when you touch a hot burner and immediately draw back without further incident. The skin becomes red and very very tender. Sunburns may peel after a few days. Treat it with an aloe pain reliever and try to to irritate it or burn it again. 2nd Degree: This burn is worse, and it causes a BLISTER to form where the burn happened. I have only seen a couple of cases of severe sunburn where it blistered but it was bad. Leaving your finger on a hot stove or hot iron or skillet an cause a 2nd degree burn fairly fast. 3rd Degree: This is a burn that actually chars the skin or ‘cooks’ it like meat on a stove. VERY BAD. This is like being caught in a car or house fire and burned. Burns are not poisonous but can get infected if the 2nd degree burn ruptures the blister or infection gets into the burn on a 3rd degree burn. One of the realy bad problems with people who suffer 3rd degree burns over a l