Treating burns with ice is a common mistake that many people make. This is wrong for two reasons. First, when you place ice on your skin, it makes it very cold. This will cause more damage to your tissue, especially the tissue in the burned area that is already fragile. This can slow down the healing process and make the burn takes longer to heal. The other reason is that if it turned out to be a second-degree or third-degree burn, then placing ice will lead to complications because it comes in contact with the deeper parts of the skin.

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