Doctors find it irritating when their patients aren't incredibly forthcoming with information. Particularly whenever they're embarrassed with whatever brought them to the ER.
Doctors weren't kidding when they said you couldn't make up the stuff that comes into the ER. And yes, plenty of doctors had seen more then their share of couples coming in due to sex-related issues.
This is what the ER doctor was treating a young woman named Helena for. It had taken so much coaxing to get the young woman to tell the physician why she'd had a large circular burn on her chest.
Helena and her fiance Dagur called Saturday "Slutty Saturday." Saturday was they day they'd chosen to try to be as kinky as possible with their sex lives. However, this particular Saturday? They'd made the stupid choice of melting a jumbo gummy bear before poring it on Helena's chest. Due to it being made of sugar? Sugar can be a dangerous business if you don't take precautions!
Whether working with molten sugar or caramel, if you get hot sugar on your skin? It will automatically give you second or third-degree burns. Once you get sugar on your skin, it sticks and burns until you take proper countermeasures. OUCH!
How does it happen? When simple sugars such as sucrose (or table sugar) are heated. Then they melt and break down into glucose and fructose, two other forms of sugar.
Continuing to heat the sugar at a high temperature causes these sugars to lose water and react with each other, producing many different types of compounds. Sugar melts at about 320 degrees F. and will turn to a clear liquid at that temperature.
Here's What to Do If You Get Burned.
Cool the burn. Hold the burned area under cool (not cold) running water or apply a cool, wet compress until the pain eases.
Remove rings or other tight items from the burned area. ...
Don't break blisters. ...
Apply an antibiotic ointment. ...
Apply lotion. ...
Bandage the burn.
After the doctor finished explaining all the facts of why this accidental injury occurred, he then informed Helena she'd need a skin graft, antibiotics, and a few other things to finish treating her wound.
He also advises them to be a bit more careful and do proper research before they try to have another "Slutty Saturday." Also, please don't withhold information from a doctor.
No one's died of embarrassment. More significantly, doctors are bound by confidentiality. They cannot air their dirty laundry to others without being fired. So tell the truth upfront to get proper treatment and don't delay the diagnosis. One thing is for sure, though. Helena and Dagur wouldn't be the last people to have sex and sent them to the ER.
