Is this a 2nd or 3rd degree burn?

[Anonymous]

It's a small pear-shaped mark on the back of the lower left leg; the only place where no hair ever grows.
It was caused by boiling water when I was 2. The two places I got burned were a bit on my right bottom and the picture as shown. Luckily I got no memory of it, it wasn't on important spots nor large injuries.

It was going to be worse. I was going to land facedown but my mother intervened and flipped while I was falling. I still landed on the edge of the boiling water in a sitting position. Nevertheless, my mother was still equally crushed at the time.

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I just went swimming recently. Obviously no one is going to lower down and see my whole lower leg. As for the other small scar on my bottom, it's not even seen on bikini; only time it's seen would be if I were having sex with my boyfriend.

[madhatters4]

this looks like 1st degree possibly 2nd degree. i see mild swelling and rather light redness.

the fact that no hair grows there would indicate 2nd degree as it impacted the epidermis and the dermis (layer of skin beneath the outer layer) causing damage to the hair follicles

[Asker]

The light redness around it is a bit of sunburn (I went swimming on Sunday without any sunblock, lol).
I assumed it was 2nd degree too since no hair ever grows there but one time I really thought it could be a small 3rd degree burn too. The doctor at the time said it was 2nd degree.

[madhatters4]

a 3rd degree burn would have much worse discoloration i'd imagine. also the skin may be more coarse

[DeterMind]

1st maybe 2nd. Probably 2nd. 3rd kills off the nerve ends and does serious damage, that isn't 3rd.

[Asker]

True. In 1989, the doctor told my mother it was 2nd degree.

[DeterMind]

Yeah looked like 2nd to me. I had 3rd once from a stupid mistake and it would look way worse even after all this time

[Asker]

Wow. I was lucky it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I was a brat as a 2 year-old and in the kitchen where I wasn't suppose to be.

[DeterMind]

Hahaha I was just stupid, grabbed a muffler after the engine had been running for two hours.

[RavenxHeart]

You should probably get that checked.

[Asker]

It happened in 1989 and the doctor at the time told my mother it was 2nd degree burn.

[RavenxHeart]

Oh. But if it still hurts for some reason, that could be a problem.

[Asker]

Nope, it doesn't hurt.

[RavenxHeart]

Alright then.

[abc3643]

It's a scar; that's it. However, you likely did have a second degree burn.

[pleaseyouright69]

2nd degree for sure third the blister pops and the skin peels

[boggboss]

It's bearly recognisable

[Asker]

It happened way back in 1989. Had it happened now, a special spray (thanks to technological advances) would have been applied, to which the skin would have grown back to normal without scarring.

[imsrk]

No it isn't.

[Asker]

Hairs never grow there though.