
A burn is an injury caused by exposure to heat, flame, friction or the sun’s rays. The common causes of skin burning include:
- Radiation burns: most often due to excessive exposure to the sun
- Heat burns: scalding from hot objects or fluids (such as boiling liquids) or fire (including flames from matches and lighters)
- Friction burns: usually both a scrape and a heat burn caused by contact with a hard surface such as roads, carpets, gym floors or ropes
- Electrical burns: from electrical sources
- Chemical burns: from household or industrial products