A while ago, the 12th February 2010 to be exact I did this:
Seeing how many of us come use motocycles of all sizes I wanted to share with everybody how I treated this burn successfully at home with no visits to hospitals.
You need to be up to date with tetanus, mine was done 5 years ago, so well within the ten year limit of effectiveness for each jab.
First thing I did was cool this thing down using chilled bottled drinking water and not thai tap water. A good twenty minute session of dribbling water of the area was painful but beneficial.
Then you need to round up some supplies, many of these you'll have easy to hand in the already house perhaps but a couple you'll need to source from the pharmacy.
Right at the top of your shopping list should should be some silver-sulphadiazine cream, its marketed under many different names, such as Silvadene, the one I chose was Flamazine because I recognised the western manufacter, Smith & Nephew. Apparently it turns out Flamazine is available everywhere in Thailand under that name and was 200 baht for a 50G tube.
Next on the Shopping list and very important is an item missing from the above photo called Bactigras (also by Smith & Nephew) this is an extremely non stick kind of dressing that comes in various sizes....believe me this stuff is great, it will absolutly not stick to this kind of injury and make the whole event of cleaning and re-dressing painless in a situation where you could find yourslef howling with pain when the dressing is removed
Full shopping list in order of importance:
1. Flamazine cream
2. Bactigras non stick dressing
3 Iodine topical antiseptic, shown in photo in orange bottle, also known as Betadine.
4. Basic gauze dressing
5. Wide bandage
6. Saline water for cleaning everyday
7. Pain killers, ibuprofen or something stronger depending on how bad/big the burn is.