Burning Symptoms: Symptoms

What other symptoms might occur with burning symptoms?

Burning symptoms may accompany other symptoms, which vary depending on the underlying disease, disorder or condition. Symptoms that frequently affect the skin may also involve other body systems.

Symptoms that may occur along with tissue-damage burning symptoms

Burning symptoms caused by tissue-damage burns to the skin will vary depending on the type of tissue damage sustained: first-, second-, or third-degree damage. Because the most serious burns destroy nerves, they may actually be painless. Burning symptoms may accompany other symptoms including:

• Blistering
• Deep tissue damage extending through and beneath your skin (in third-degree burns)
• Dilated pupils
• Peeling or white, charred skin
• Redness, warmth or swelling

Airway symptoms that may occur along with tissue-damage burning symptoms

Burning symptoms caused by tissue-damage burns to the airways will vary depending on the type of substance causing the burn, as well as the extent of the burn. Burning symptoms may accompany other symptoms affecting the airways including:

• Blackened mucus (stained by carbon)
• Burned lips and mouth
• Burns on or around your head
• Cough
• Difficulty breathing
• Hoarse voice or loss of voice
• Singed hairs lining mucus membranes
• Wheezing

Symptoms that may occur along with paresthesia burning symptoms

Paresthesia burning symptoms may accompany symptoms related to other body systems including:

• Difficulty with memory, thinking, talking, comprehension, writing or reading
• Impaired balance and coordination
• Loss of vision or changes in vision
• Muscle weakness, especially on one side
• Pins-and-needles (prickling) sensation

Serious symptoms that might indicate a life-threatening condition

In some cases, burning symptoms may be a symptom of a life-threatening condition that should be immediately evaluated in an emergency setting. Seek immediate medical care (call 911) if you, or someone you are with, have any of these life-threatening symptoms including:

• Bluish lips, fingernails and mucous membranes; blackened or singed mucous membranes
• Difficulty breathing
• Difficulty walking
• Difficulty with memory, thinking, talking, comprehension, writing or reading
• Drainage or pus from the burn; red streaks spreading from the burn
• Impaired balance and coordination
• Muscle weakness, especially on one side
• Skin or tissue-damage burn the size of your palm or larger, or a deep-tissue damage burn
• Smoke inhalation