Disaster Management in Fisheries

 Degrees of Burn

The degree of burns indicates the degree of damage to the tissues. There are three degrees of burns. They are:

• First Degree Burns: The skin is reddened.
• Second Degree Burns: There are blisters on the skin.
• Third Degree Burns: There is destruction of deeper tissues with scarring.

The danger from burns depends more on the extent of the burns than on the degree. Superficial burns over a large area are more dangerous than complete charring of a part of a limb. On any one person, different parts of the body may show varying degree of burns.