Case History: BURNED FINGERS

Darlene Thibeaudeau Houston, Texas, U.S:~A. August 26, 1990

Darlene Thibeadeau was the Word Processor at N. onScents who typed many of the case histories which have been written about this product. Almost exactly 4 months prior to this incident she suffered a minor burn while cooking a meal for her family, and used NonScents to take away the pain from that in juy. I herefore, she is well aware how useful NonScents is in the ldtchen. This particular evening she was cooking a late dinner for her family when her 3-year-old son, who was by her side, reached up and apparently touched the pan that she was cooking rlinner in on the stove. Her son generally seems to have a low sensitivity to pain and will often cry if he scratches himself or is bitten by an insect. This accident was no exception to his apparent pain tolerance, because he began to cry quite violently

Darlene noticed that the first two i ingers on his right hand were very red and shiny. She knew exactly what to do next, and filled the kitchen sink about half full with water and put about a quarter of a cup of NonScents powder in the water and stirred it up. Then she put her son's burned hand in the water. Within just a few seconds he stopped crying. She put his high chair next to the sink so he could be more comfortable. After a few minutes he took his hand out of the water and went into the living room to play. However, in just 2-3 minutes he would be back at the sink to put his hand in the w ater because the pain continued to return to his fingers.

It wasn't long before Darlene's son realized that he would have to return to the sink with NonSeents in the water to relieve the pain in his fingers. Soon he began to m ake a mess of things by playing and splashing with the water. Darlene realized that she was going to have to find a better way to service her son's injured fingers so she could finish cooking dinner. She took a large "Stop N Go" quart cup and filled it with water, and put about 4-5 tablespoons of NonScents powder in it and stirred it up so the water became muddy in appearance. She then put this cup on a coffee table so that her son could go over to it every few minutes when the pain ~ his burned fingers bothered hlm.

Her son burned himself about 8:00 p.m. Usually he goes to 'bed at 8:30 p.m. However, this evemng he would not go to bed because of the pain from the burn. His parents were also afraid that he would spill the water in his bed so he stayed up until 9:00 p.m. By that time all the pain had left the afflicted area. Darlene's son probably had his hand in NonScents water for a maximum of about 45 minutes that evening. He was very tired and went to bed and fast to sleep very quickly. He slept comfortably all night. The next day, he had two magnificent blisters on his fingers which he would occasionally show to his parents, but he did not experience any more pain Mom the
Case Historly: BURNED FINGERS By: Location: Date:

Marianne Barber Houston, Texas, USA. May 19, 1990

Marianne Barber is the Accounting Assistant at NonScents. Recently Marianne heard one of her co-workers, Darlene Thibeadeau, tell about an experience that she had in using NonScents to take away the Pam from a burn that she received while cooking breakfast. Much to her surprise she was about to test NonSc:ents in a similar manner.

This Saturday morning, Marianne was cooking bacon and cinnamon rolls for part of the breakfast meal. The oven had been set at 400° F for the cinnamon rolls. The bacon was being cooked on the front left burner of the stove. A blue metal plate was also placed between the four burners on this stove. When the bacon was cooked she took it i tom the flying pan and put it in the blue metal plate. After she had cooked all of the bacon she reached over to pick up the blue metal plate. Apparently, the heat from the stove and burner that was used to cook the bacon had also heated this metal plate to a high tem perature. When she picked up the blue metal plate she burned her thumb and first two fingers on her right hand. The burning pain was quite severe. An three fingers h^lrned bright red and the skin had a shiny appearance.

Marianne's first reaction, besides mentioning some deleted comments, was to put her burned fingers under cold tap water from the sink. This did not relieve the paw. Then she reached for a can of NonScents powder, which was underneath the sink and generously sprinkled it on her fingers and formed a thick, muddy paste over them. She was too involved in her cooking to recall exactly when the Paul disappeared. However, when she rinsed the powder from her fingers about 3 minutes later all the pain from the burn was completely gone, and there was no more redness to the afflicted area.

The burned area did not blister afterward. When breakfast was finished she washed dishes in very hot water, and the heat from the hot water did not bother her burned fingers Later that afternoon she took a hot bath and the heat from that water also did not bother her burned fingers. The apparent bee g from the burn was so com plete that Marianne essentially forgot about it until she went to work on Monday, and a casual conversation with one of her friends reminded her of the incident.

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