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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:
1 It can be caused by infections like shingles, chemical irritants, pressure from bones or tumors, trauma, or diabetes. 2  Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the nervous system. 3  Itâs characterized by damage to the protective material that surrounds nerve cells and causes a variety of symptoms, including burning pain.