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A burn is damage to your body's tissues caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, sunlight, or radiation. Scalds from hot liquids and steam, building fires and flammable liquids and gases are the most common causes of burns. Another kind is an inhalation injury, caused by breathing smoke. There are three types of burns:
Burns can cause a wide spectrum of effects, from a minor skin irritation, such as mild sunburn, to a life- and limb-threatening injury from a high. temperature burn. The severity of burns depends. on a multitude of host and heat-source fac-.