Erin Allman-Updike

Is it scar?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it's really, really going to depend on what kind of treatment you have access to.

Okay.

Yeah.

Right?

If you don't have access to any treatment, especially if this was a deep burn, then the tissue that has died is going to form what's called an eschar.

I think that's how you say it.

And that's basically like you can think of it as a really, really bad scab.

So something that's completely black, completely necrotic, can be very thick.

And it will take a very long time, if ever, for that wound to heal completely.

Because, again, if the burn extends all the way through the dermis, so a deep partial thickness burn or a complete thickness burn, so a late second degree 2B or a third degree burn or greater, there aren't any...

dermal cells left to re-epithelialize.

And so that wound has to heal from the bottom up.

And it's really a slow process.

And in some cases, it just never completely makes new skin again without some kind of wound management.

So that wound might never heal and it might become a chronic wound.

Okay.

If you don't have any access to essentially surgical debridement and then treatment for it.