Treating a motorbike exhaust burn on the shin

This burn on the patient's shin came from skin touching the hot exhaust of a motorbike. The burn had happened two weeks before the patient came to Dialine, and in that time they had been treated for several sessions at another centre, but the wound had still not closed. An exhaust burn is often deeper than it first looks, because the skin has touched very hot metal. At Dialine we continued treatment with dressings and regular wound care. The session 5 photo may look worrying at first, but it shows signs of healing: the yellow dead tissue that covered the centre in session 1 is gone, and thin, pale new skin, growing in from the edges and from the hair roots, now covers most of the wound; the dark dots mark those spots. The purple ring around it is discolouration left by the burn, not infection, and it fades over time. Treatment is ongoing. The images on this page follow it up to the fifth session.