What should I do with it?

I wouldn't pop it as you risk infection. Best cover it and let nature take its course. Painkillers and female ingenuity will get you through. Sorry not to be more helpful...

Yes popping it may introduce infection, I agree with Mollie.
Hope you enjoyed the potatoes.

Thanks mollie, I think that unless I treat it ultra carefully (which is unlikely) it is likely to get burst soon!

And next time you do that, stick it under the cold tap while someone else serves up the meal. If you delay long enough to get the food on the table you are too late, the heat has continued to burn it. I say this with the authority of experience, because I am always burning my wrists and forearms on the oven shelves.

Buy a tube of Acriflex and keep it in or near the kitchen - that keeps on cooling it after you have decided that you really can't stand at the kitchen sink any longer.

Don't put anything else on it except a clean dressing, unless it shows signs of going nasty.

christinefrance The potatoes, beef, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, Swede and Yorkshire puddings and gravy were well received, thank you!

Keep the blister intact as long as you can, phoenix. I once burnt my foot quite badly on a motorbike taxi (daft bat that I am). The blister was as big as a small egg. Managed not to burst it for over a week so by the time it did the skin underneath had healed.

A finger will present more challenges than an instep blister. Hope it isn't too painful.

elegran, I didn't know about that stuff. Thanks for the tip. I've spent so many hours with my hand in a bucket of cold water over the years!!

I second the Acriflex - my mother always had a tube handy and I have too - kept in the top kitchen drawer!

I got blisters from hot fat the full length of two fingers (yes, I felt like giving the pan the two fingers!!), cooled them down under a cold tap then kept ice on them all evening but they still blistered badly. So I bandaged them with ordinary white bandages held with micropore tape - no cream at all and kept them dry until the blisters eventually dried up or the fluid re-absorbed which took quite some time.

It did take ages - and the other thing I had to do was make sure, after it had healed but was still very red, that I put sun cream on those fingers as the skin was still very delicate.

Elegran I did the tap thing, and I agree with you about Acriflex, great stuff! Always in my medicine cabinet.

Problem is that this incident resulted in a blister, not a burn.

I did actually put a good dollop of Acriflex on it, but still have a rather impressive blister.

Perhaps if I took a few photos, it might qualify for an entry for the Turner Prize, after all all sorts of crap stuff seems to get in!

Just need a snappy title...........

A bandage may look dramatic but will stop you knocking the blister, breaking it and perhaps getting an infection.

Sorry to hear about your burn x do you have a Pharmacy near you? if so i would pop in there tomorrow and get some advice from them, x

Just like to add, many thanks that none of you have posted a rude response, although there is still time, if any members feel the need............

Wouldn't dream of it - I feel your pain

I have heard that if you have an Aloe Vera plant, you can break off leaf/spike, and the gel that oozes out is very healing. Too late for you now, but my sympathies for your poor sore finger. Of course you have to have your arm in a sling and get OH to do the chores and ply you with till you're better. ?

I take it there were no complaints from Mr. P about the quantity of veg on his plate this time?

#livingdangerously

Ha ha merlot no, none at all!

I'm sorry about your poorly finger but of course you oughtn't pop the blister due to the infection risk but personally, if it were my finger, I wouldn't be able to resist

DH had massive blisters on one leg when he was in hospital having a stem cell transplant. They wrapped his leg up with loads of passing to protect them and although they did burst eventually it was in a controlled way

One of my blisters did leak slowly but the other one seemed to be re-absorbed.

Don't push them, don't prick them, don't meddle!! Keep them covered with a nice clean white bandage!
Nurse has spoken.

I'd suggest special blister plasters,proprietary name Compeed, but sold as 'own brand'as well. They are a great help with healing.
Although the 'official'advice is not to pop, as a walker, I know there are occasions when not popping leads to rubbing & such awkwardness as to make everything worse. If the blistered skin peels off before healed underneath, the would is big & raw.
So what I have done (to make it clear this is not advice!) is to clean the blister thoroughly with antiseptic, stick a needle under boiling water, with clean towel / gauze to hand. Allow fluid to leak out gently, then immediately apply blister plaster.
And my advice, when better is to make more pot holders!

Probably too late now, but I think the advice of putting burns under the cold tap (depending where the burn is of course) is the best idea. Exclude air with a clean cloth, and continue in this way - Like Deeda my other half had massive blisters on his legs which did burst at one point, but the main treatment was clean bandaging, no creams, and they did eventually heal up without scars. Burns are so painful, even the little ones.

Yes, always run under cold tap as long as u can.
I keep all Vera plant in kitchen and it's wonderful for burns assisting healing. If worried do see pharmacist and don't pop!

I did exactly the same at Christmas complete with hopping round kitchen, hand in cold water for several hours whike going ow ow ow to not much sympathy from assembled company. It wAs my right thumb . I did not pop the huge bluster just covered with a plaster for several days , maybe a week. The blister eventually went learhery abd brittle and peeled off leaving shiny new red skin underneath which was a bit sensitive. Gradually recoverd. It took maybe two or three weeks. It's amazing how the body heals itself.
I woulsnt pop it - the blister cushions it. Apart from infection it hurts more if popped.

Ouch!! I think we have all been there at some point.
Agree with above... for burns, masses of cold water asap.
Do not pop blisters.

I was once told that germolene GROWS germs, though the tube is slightly better than a pot.

Personally, I have found neat lavender oil applied really helps, and in extremis, honey truly does help if nothing else available.

Miserable for you. Hope it clears up quickly.