My mom burned her arm while reaching over a kettle with boiling water. It's a second degree burn that's about the size of a 50 Cent coin. It's blistered something awful...my mom's just wondering if it's safe to break the skin over the blister. This happened on Sunday, and we've been covering the area with these gel pads made for burns, but there's still that issue of the blistered skin.

Basically, is it safe to break the blistered skin, do we wait a little longer before trying anything like that, or will it just die off? I'm thinking the blistered skin is just going to die off...so I'm worried about a possible infection.

I Googled it, but all I found was immediate treatment for stuff like that.

Any help?