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Top: Health: Conditions_and_Diseases: Wounds_and_Injuries
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Bites, stinges, athletic injuries, back, dislocation, burns, contusions, frostbite, heat stroke, motion sickness, shock, spinal cord injuries, sprains, wound infections and related conditions.
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Please submit articles or websites pertaining to bites and stings. Sites selling products will not be listed here. |
Bites by animals and humans as well as insect stings and how to treat them.
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Please submit websites or articles about burns to this area.
Sites pertaining to burn care should be submitted to the proper subcategory. |
A burn is a type of injury to the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, or radiation.
First-degree burns are usually limited to redness and pain at the site.
Second-degree burns have blistering of the skin.
Third-degree burns have charring of the skin, the nerve endings are burnt away.
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Please submit only sites or articles pertaining to fractures to this area.
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Breach in continuity of a bone. Types of fractures include simple, compound, comminuted, greenstick, incomplete, impacted, longitudinal, oblique, stress or transverse.
Heat exhaustion, heatstroke and sunstroke.
Recognition and treatment of hypothermia and frostbite.
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Submit only sites that discuss this type of injury to the skin.
Sites submitted to this area must be in English. |
Sunburn is an inflammation of the skin that develops in response to exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun or from tanning beds and booths that emit UV radiation. Sunburn is manifested by reddened, painful skin that may develop blisters.
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