Chemical Burns vs. Submergible Burns: Risks & Misdiagnosis
Questioncan a chemical burn be misdiagnosed for a submersable burn and what are the differences In other words if a highly concentrated Disinfectant cleaner was exposed on a pullup diaper in a car floor board but averything had dried out it was aweek later if the pullup was used and wet on by a child could he get a burn from it? the chemical in question is Lysol I.C. Quaternary Disinfectant Cleaner .
Answertypically a submersible burn involves the buttocks and spares the front because the child gets out immediately. A burn from a diaper containing a lye cleaner would probably be all over. Lye burns are bad because they continue to burn even when they have been repeated washed off. I am not sure if that is what this cleaner is, but usually grease cutting cleaners are lye based. Yes, it could be misdiagnosed but could be differentiated by a biopsy or real careful inspection...