update on daycare sunburned boys. cops searched home for ointment that may have caused burns

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://m.wsbtv.com/news/news/national/police-serve-search-warrant-ointment-used-sunburne/nm9XB/

Police told FOX23 officers are searching the boys’ grandparents’ home for an ointment that was applied to the burns.

Officials said they are concerned the ingredients of the ointment may have caused the blisters.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027020490

http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2015/07/28/mom-shares-graphic-images-of-her-boys-sunburns-after-day-care-trip/

[Warpy]

1. That doesn't look like sunburn

I have an Irish glow in the dark, fishbelly white skin. I burned and peeled every year when I was a kid, especially the years my dad decided to combine a family vacation with business in Miami. I'd burn badly enough to run high fevers for a few days.

This looks like a chemical burn to me. The picture of the other kid in his hospital bed with the big, peeling blister on his shoulder looks more like a sunburned kid.

However, those kids are gingers and should never go anywhere without their own supply of sun screen in their little backpacks, next to their lunches.

ETA: The heat index didn't have anything to do with this. Some of the worst burns I've had were on relatively cool days with a strong sea breeze and even a light overcast. There was no sun screen in the 1950s.

[Hekate]

2. The white stuff looks like someone tried to put a poultice on the burns afterward...

It's almost like baking soda in appearance. If I'm right about the poultice, it would be a home- remedy type thing to soothe the burn. Caked-on Noxema looks like that when it dries, too.

I cannot imagine quite what ointment a grandparent would have in their home that could cause such damage. The day care provider was grossly negligent.

Hekate -- same gene pool as Warpy, apparently

[udbcrzy2]

3. You're right it does look like Noxema

Weren't those photos taken while they were in the hospital though? I feel so bad for those kids.

[Warpy]

4. Ummm, not so fast on the day care person

Other info says that no other kids were burned and that the two boys refused to put their t-shirts on when a worker noticed they were getting a little pink. Also, it seems Mom took them swimming in the afternoon, 4 hours at a pool with no sunscreen.

This is a little more complicated than it looks at first glance.

My blisters were that big, but they were flat, not blown up like balloons, and the fluid was clear, not yellow.

And condolences for sharing the gene pool. I timed it once, it took me 20 minutes to blister.

[Hekate]

5. I've had a lot of blisters courtesy of liquid nitrogen zaps in my dermatologist's office....

They fill and drain, fill and drain, over a period of days while I try to keep the skin over them from breaking permanently as the new skin forms underneath. Anyway, sometimes the serum is pretty yellow, sometimes more clear. Doesn't seem to have any particular rhyme or reason.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. yes, internet jumped on mom's side without the full story

[tammywammy]

8. Do you have a link to the part about the mom taking them to a pool?

[nomorenomore08]

7. Makes me grateful that I'm able to tan somewhat - in certain spots at least - without burning

right off the bat. So long as I keep my shirt on, I'm able to avoid serious burns on most hot days, even without sunscreen.

BTW I am 100% Northern European so far as I know - Scottish/Lithuanian/English/German, roughly in that order.