One thing that is often overlooked when stocking first-aid kits both at home and at work,
is first aid treatment for burns.
With people suffering from burn injuries daily, BurnFree aims to provide a quick way to remedy
and heal the most common types of burns.
Hi, I'm Colleen from the Payroll Department here at Gregg Distributors, welcome to this
soothing episode of Gear Up with Gregg's.
BurnFree has been advancing first aid burn care since 1994.
Their products aim to solve the immediate first aid needs for all types of burns
by relieving the pain, rapidly removing the heat, and cooling the injury.
For decades, militaries, EMTs, and medical professionals alike have called BurnFree their
preferred first aid product for burns.
Burn wounds can be complicated.
However, there are two main principles to the first aid treatment of burn injuries:
Cool the site to limit the severity of the injury, and relieve the pain felt by the victim.
This is where BurnFree's gels truly stand out.
Each of their dressings and blankets come pre-soaked in their special gel formula.
The viscous hydrogel works by drawing out the heat from the burn, provides pain relief
by cooling and helps to stop the burn from progressing.
The fluid that makes up BurnFree gel is mostly di-ionized, pure water that has been thickened
with a gelling agent to enable the formulation to stay in place over the wound.
It's composition also includes a preservative system and evaporation inhibitor to control
the cooling effect.
All of that is combined with a wetting agent that allows for better penetration of the
water into clothing or debris embedded in the wound, softening the material which helps
ease the cleaning of the wound.
You may be wondering why isn t water or ice enough to cool and soothe a burn?
While water or ice does work to cool burns, it's difficult to maintain water over the entire area of
an injury, a significantly sized burn can also raise concerns for hypothermia when ice
is applied for prolonged periods.
Using ice or water on a burn injury will not only lower the temperature of the skin but
can cause constriction of the veins, thus increasing the area of dead body tissue.
BurnFree offers a range of products from single-use gels, to dressings, blankets, and first aid kits.
The sterile burn and wound dressings are comprised of pliable, absorbent, non-woven material
that has been saturated in their Pain Relieving Gel.
These dressings help relieve pain by covering exposed nerve endings and tissue,
which in turn helps prevent further damage to the skin caused by sunburns, chemical burns,
electrical burns, steam, and hot oil burns.
Meanwhile, the BurnFree Blankets are made of pure virgin wool, woven with a unique interlinking
cell construction.
The special design of the wool allows for the blanket to hold up to 14 times its weight of BurnFree Gel.
These blankets are designed for emergency and industrial use, and to also provide physical
protection from heat, fire, and smoke.
The blankets come in three sizes, allowing you to cover large areas all at once, soothing
the burn and stopping the progression of injury.
BurnFree also has a selection of first aid kits, containing a variety of sizes of BurnFree
gel, dressings, and other necessary first aid equipment.
The kits are designed for a range of applications like in restaurants, industrial use, and easy
to carry Kwik Kits.
Either at home or at work, BurnFree kits are good to have on hand before you need them.
If you're unsure as to which BurnFree kit will be best for your job site or application,
feel free to give us a call or visit our website at greggdistributors.ca.
Or visit us in person at one of our Western Canadian branches.
Again, I'm Colleen and thank you for keepin' it Canadian with us here on Gear Up with Greggs.