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@Skylarynn

This question is actually perfectly timed since burn care is on my exam for this week anyways. I’m going to cover this first from a modern nursing perspective and then from a medieval historical perspective, including procedures, materials, and mindset. Forgive me if I repeat any information you already know.

A warning – the full answer is a REALLY, REALLY LONG POST. I’ll post it below, but I’ll also give you the TL;DR here:

Burn wounds are hard to survive, all the more so without medical aid (even amateur help). In order to stand a chance of surviving, he will need to guard against infection by keeping his wounds meticulously clean and bandaged (and changing those frequently), keep hydrated (drinking 2-4x his normal intake), and eat a high calorie diet (4000-6000 calories) to fuel his body for the healing process – and rest, as his burned skin is not going to recover if it’s constantly stretching and stressed by activity.

However, for widespread 2nd degree (partial-thickness) burns, he is going to need skin grafts to replace his lost skin, and that’s simply not going to happen without medical help. Until he can get that kind of help, he’s going to just have to keep those wounds bandaged.

If he had 3rd degree burns, the only way to survive would be to amputate before the wound turned gangrenous and he developed sepsis. There’s simply no way a man in the woods by himself can survive that kind of injury without either medical or magical help.

Anyways, verbiage below!