Springtime Beautiful-Warm Weather, and Unfortunately Sunburn
With the ever rising temperature and the heat index rising as well, it is now time to start buying up sunscreen for yourself and your family.
Sunburn is: excessive exposure of the skin to UVR (ultra-violet radiation). The absolute best way to treat sunburn is to treat it before it happens. When it might and when it does happen. This can be in either the winter time, or the summer time, it can happen on land or on water, wherever direct sun or highly reflected light may reach and therefore threaten bare skin.
Sun burn should be treated for the healing of current sunburn pain, skin damage and potential skin cancer as well as to prevent further sunburn. Here are several ways you can do this.
Take a hot shower. A hot shower immediately after mild sunburn can bring about peeling sooner and rid you quickly of discomfort. ( I got this off of the net and don’t know if I actually agree with it. I mean, the LAST thing that I want to do immediately after getting sunburned is to jump into a hot shower. I included it into the article anyway because it may be helpful to somebody. I’m not saying that I’m right, I’m probably not, I’m just saying that I don’t agree with it because it doesn’t make any sense to me.).
Use Aloe Vera. Aloe Vera comes from the aloe vera plant and it can be squeezed from its leaves. Now, this is the best natural treatment there is in my book. If you don’t like mixing in a lot of different chemicals to treat your sunburn. Aloe vera is natural and is just as effective as anything that you can get from the store. And chances are more likely than not that whatever you buy from the store to treat sunburn has aloe vera in it anyway.
General moisturizers. A general moisturizer such as Noxema can be applied to sunburned areas to cool and sooth the painfully itchy malady. Baby oil is good moisturizer, but don’t use it in the sun or it may help you burn even more.
Anesthetics. Anesthetics such as the popular skiers treatment cool blue actually kill the pain of most sunburns for a time. This is applied to the skin in the form of a spray or a gelatinized rub. It is also frequently mixed with aloe vera as sold. Asprin dissolved in water in small doses may be directly applied to affected areas.
Other medications. Other medications such as Uguentine is used to treat the ache and itchiness of sunburns. There are other brand names and store brand treatments you may want to ask your pharmacist about. Mycetracin or other multiple healing ointments may help to speed healing though you will want to ask your pharmacist to be sure.
Well, that’s it. And as always, I hope you found this article both informative and entertaining. May GOD bless you always, and in always.
Barry Ford is the webmaster of a website providing both important information and valuable products about skin care. You can find it at http://www.dvqskincare.com
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