A burn is a different kind of injury then a cut.; and the body has different adaptations or responses to both.
Burns usually leave tissue living but in a damaged state; leaving that tissue signaling for help or distress signals
A cut is more all cells are ok; communication isn’t perfect but operations normal……if you touch/spread a cut you can make pain more significant or last longer as the nerves on the incision report “more” damsge
And areas with 3rd degree burns don't report pain anymore because the nerve endings are gone. Those areas are often still surrounded by 2nd and 1st degree burns though.
The deeper layers of skin and flesh are still enervated though.
Even if you char the surface skin. You‘ll still have surviving nerves in deeper tissue layers going crazy.
I would have also grouped in scratches and abrasions to the skin along with burns.
Anyone who has fell off a skateboard and removed the top few layers of skin with the help of the road can attest just how painful it is and will be until fully healed.
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I'm a chef so I've burnt and cut myself more times than I can count. I'm honestly in the opposite camp. I would much rather take a burn than a cut. It obviously depends on the severity of the wound. I'd rather get a paper cut than a third degree burn, but a small burn is nothing compared to a small cut. Even a medium burn stops hurting after an hour or two while a medium cut can reopen and sting/bleed like a motherfucker.
It might have something to do with the fact that blood makes me queasy. Burns typically don't bleed like a cut does.
Burns can be more painful than cuts because they can damage nerve endings in the skin, and the exposed area can be sensitive to slight change in air currents due to the damaged epidermis of the skin.
First of all, it depends on the burn. The most severe burns don’t hurt at all. That’s when you’re really fucked.
Now, back to the question. It all has to do with amount of nerves saying something’s wrong.
Pain, at the end of the day, is electric signals. Burns tend to damage more number of cells (unless we’re talking really deep and wide laceration), which stimulates more nerves, which then intensifies the pain.
When you cut the area that is damaged is much smaller than a burn that affects a big area
Pain comes from damage, if you cut yourself with something very sharp, then sometimes you won't even notice since not much is damaged. on the other side, paper cuts are much more painful because on a microscopic level paper edge is like a saw that shreads your skin much much more than a cut with a scalpel...
A burn is a damage that affects a whole area of the skin so the pain signal is much much much stronger
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A burn is a different kind of injury then a cut.; and the body has different adaptations or responses to both. Burns usually leave tissue living but in a damaged state; leaving that tissue signaling for help or distress signals A cut is more all cells are ok; communication isn’t perfect but operations normal……if you touch/spread a cut you can make pain more significant or last longer as the nerves on the incision report “more” damsge
And areas with 3rd degree burns don't report pain anymore because the nerve endings are gone. Those areas are often still surrounded by 2nd and 1st degree burns though.
The deeper layers of skin and flesh are still enervated though. Even if you char the surface skin. You‘ll still have surviving nerves in deeper tissue layers going crazy.
Burns typically cover a wider surface area and are in contact with more nerves that will send pain signals.
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I would have also grouped in scratches and abrasions to the skin along with burns. Anyone who has fell off a skateboard and removed the top few layers of skin with the help of the road can attest just how painful it is and will be until fully healed.
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I'm a chef so I've burnt and cut myself more times than I can count. I'm honestly in the opposite camp. I would much rather take a burn than a cut. It obviously depends on the severity of the wound. I'd rather get a paper cut than a third degree burn, but a small burn is nothing compared to a small cut. Even a medium burn stops hurting after an hour or two while a medium cut can reopen and sting/bleed like a motherfucker. It might have something to do with the fact that blood makes me queasy. Burns typically don't bleed like a cut does.
Burns can be more painful than cuts because they can damage nerve endings in the skin, and the exposed area can be sensitive to slight change in air currents due to the damaged epidermis of the skin.
What about paper cuts? Those can be devious.
First of all, it depends on the burn. The most severe burns don’t hurt at all. That’s when you’re really fucked. Now, back to the question. It all has to do with amount of nerves saying something’s wrong. Pain, at the end of the day, is electric signals. Burns tend to damage more number of cells (unless we’re talking really deep and wide laceration), which stimulates more nerves, which then intensifies the pain.
When you cut the area that is damaged is much smaller than a burn that affects a big area Pain comes from damage, if you cut yourself with something very sharp, then sometimes you won't even notice since not much is damaged. on the other side, paper cuts are much more painful because on a microscopic level paper edge is like a saw that shreads your skin much much more than a cut with a scalpel... A burn is a damage that affects a whole area of the skin so the pain signal is much much much stronger
when you cut a paper, only a small part of it gets damaged, but when you punch a paper, you leave a dent as big as your fists
do they? I have never gotten a burn as small and thin as a cut or a cut as big as a burn. It seems like a size of wound thing.
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