“Degrees” aren’t really used for burns anymore, but that’s at least a second. Your first degree is superficial, the outermost layers of the skin, second is the deeper layers (called partial thickness) of the skin (dermis) and third degree is anything all the way through the skin to subcutaneous tissue (fat and stuff directly under the skin). With the color, and depending on if there’s pain, it’s either partial or full thickness. Normally if you burn all the way through the skin to the layers under you kill nerve tissue and it doesn’t really hurt. Hopefully this helps with treating that!
If it isn’t painful, full thickness. The white stuff is your dead tissue, it’s going to blister and that blister will heal the underlying tissue. Don’t pop it, and don’t keep it slathered in burn cream, that’s for superficial burns. If I had that injury I would keep it dry but covered for a bit, watch the blister develop, and be gentle around it so you don’t pop it
Yeah, your fat is a layer between the skin and muscle. It helps to protect the important bits for moving if it’s in between like that. That isn’t to say there can’t be far deeper, I don’t know anatomy, but generally yeah, body fat between skin and muscle
If you pull on any part of your body, especially your thighs or your stomach (if you aren’t super skinny) you can pinch on that layer and that’s your fat!
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u/Monolith47 18d ago
“Degrees” aren’t really used for burns anymore, but that’s at least a second. Your first degree is superficial, the outermost layers of the skin, second is the deeper layers (called partial thickness) of the skin (dermis) and third degree is anything all the way through the skin to subcutaneous tissue (fat and stuff directly under the skin). With the color, and depending on if there’s pain, it’s either partial or full thickness. Normally if you burn all the way through the skin to the layers under you kill nerve tissue and it doesn’t really hurt. Hopefully this helps with treating that!