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I received this in an email yesterday. I'm wondering if any of you SSers can verify that this really is true.
A young home owner was sprinkling his lawn and bushes with pesticides wanted to check the contents of the 30 gal. barrel to see how much pesticide remained in it. He removed the lid and lit his lighter, the vapors flamed and engulfed him. He jumped from his truck screaming. His neighbor came out of her house with a dozen eggs, yelling to everyone in earshot, "bring me some more eggs!" She broke them, separating the whites from the yolks. A neighbor woman helped her apply the whites on the young man's face. When the ambulance arrived and when the EMTs saw the young man, they asked who had done this. Everyone pointed to the lady in charge. They congratulated her and said: "You have saved his face." By the end of the summer, the young man brought the lady a bouquet of roses to thank her. His face was like a baby's skin.
First aid for burns consists of spraying cold water on the affected area until the heat is reduced and stops burning the layers of skin. Spread egg whites on the affected area.
One woman burned a large part of her hand with boiling water. In spite of the pain she ran cold faucet water on her hand, separated 2 egg white from the yolks, beat them slightly and dipped her hand in the solution. The whites then dried and formed a protective layer. She knew that the egg white is a natural collagen and continued to apply layer upon layer of beaten egg white. By afternoon she no longer felt any pain and the next day there was hardly a trace of the burn. 10 days later, no trace was left at all and her skin had regained its normal color. The burned area was totally regenerated thanks to the collagen in the egg whites, a placenta full of vitamins.
I can tell you, with first hand experience, that an ice water bath saved me from very serious burn injury when I was in Viet Nam in 1968. We were under heavy fire and a small rocket exploded in a storage area full of 5 gal. cans of napalm (used for burning outhouse waste) and 5 gal. cans of motor oil for the helicopters. My left leg and foot was covered with burning liquid. My boot was full of burning oil. I passed out from the blast and the pain. About an hour later I came to and found that someone had packed ice bags around my foot and lower leg and covered it with soaking wet blankets. I felt no pain at all (but that is also the result of a traumatic experience sometimes). I have very minor scarring on my ankle and the bottom of my foot. A Vietnamese woman and her son removed my boots, socks, and pants and most of my skin down there peeled off like wet tissue paper. I didn't get any medical assistance until the next day but by that time the healing had already started. The only thing the medical folks had to do was to keep the infection down. Two weeks later I was back on full rotation.
A young home owner was sprinkling his lawn and bushes with pesticides wanted to check the contents of the 30 gal. barrel to see how much pesticide remained in it. He removed the lid and lit his lighter, the vapors flamed and engulfed him. He jumped from his truck screaming. His neighbor came out of her house with a dozen eggs, yelling to everyone in earshot, "bring me some more eggs!" She broke them, separating the whites from the yolks. A neighbor woman helped her apply the whites on the young man's face. When the ambulance arrived and when the EMTs saw the young man, they asked who had done this. Everyone pointed to the lady in charge. They congratulated her and said: "You have saved his face." By the end of the summer, the young man brought the lady a bouquet of roses to thank her. His face was like a baby's skin.
First aid for burns consists of spraying cold water on the affected area until the heat is reduced and stops burning the layers of skin. Spread egg whites on the affected area.
One woman burned a large part of her hand with boiling water. In spite of the pain she ran cold faucet water on her hand, separated 2 egg white from the yolks, beat them slightly and dipped her hand in the solution. The whites then dried and formed a protective layer. She knew that the egg white is a natural collagen and continued to apply layer upon layer of beaten egg white. By afternoon she no longer felt any pain and the next day there was hardly a trace of the burn. 10 days later, no trace was left at all and her skin had regained its normal color. The burned area was totally regenerated thanks to the collagen in the egg whites, a placenta full of vitamins.
I can tell you, with first hand experience, that an ice water bath saved me from very serious burn injury when I was in Viet Nam in 1968. We were under heavy fire and a small rocket exploded in a storage area full of 5 gal. cans of napalm (used for burning outhouse waste) and 5 gal. cans of motor oil for the helicopters. My left leg and foot was covered with burning liquid. My boot was full of burning oil. I passed out from the blast and the pain. About an hour later I came to and found that someone had packed ice bags around my foot and lower leg and covered it with soaking wet blankets. I felt no pain at all (but that is also the result of a traumatic experience sometimes). I have very minor scarring on my ankle and the bottom of my foot. A Vietnamese woman and her son removed my boots, socks, and pants and most of my skin down there peeled off like wet tissue paper. I didn't get any medical assistance until the next day but by that time the healing had already started. The only thing the medical folks had to do was to keep the infection down. Two weeks later I was back on full rotation.
