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Burn types are separated into degrees of severity. The most commonly encountered are:
First degree burns: these are superficial burns to the outer layers (epidermis) of the skin, causing reddening (or occasionally whitening) of the skin and relatively mild pain.
Second degree burns: these are more serious burns, involving the outer (epidermis) and inner (dermis) layers of the skin, causing reddening, blistering, and pain. These are fairly typical results of steam or boiling water burns. Somewhat counterintuitively, more severe second degree burns tend to be less painful, as the nerves in the skin become damaged.
Third degree burns: these are severe burns, involving the complete loss of the skin (dermis and epidermis) in the affected area, often including charring, and damage to the deeper tissue. These often require skin grafts in order to heal, typically scar badly, and can easily be life-threatening if they occur over significant areas of the body.
The scale actually continues with the less-common fourth, fifth, and sixth degree burns, which range from deep muscle damage up to the total destruction of limbs. All of these are enormously damaging and immediately life threatening.
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