Erin Allman-Updike

Not a blister type of a thing.

So a bad sunburn.

Your skin is red, it's angry, and it's painful.

But beyond that, it generally does not blister.

Okay.

And it does not need any kind of specialized treatment.

And you're not going to get a scar or any residual defects or anything.

These type of superficial or first-degree burns generally heal within a week or so.

But no blistering.

That is when we get into second-degree burns.

And what used to be just lumped as second-degree burns is now split into two different types.

So the first is a superficial partial thickness burn.

This is the one, Erin, that will blister.

And so this is a burn that burns completely through the epidermis and then into the first part of the dermis but does not go like deeply into the dermis.

And so this is something that you might get if you burn yourself on a pan or the oven or like really hot, you know, liquid that spills on you or something.

These burns are very, very painful.

They might be red.

They might be blistered.

They might be very wet and kind of weep.

And you have to take care of these wounds, but you're not going to need surgery to fix these wounds because the layer of the dermis has not been completely burned through.