Contents:
- Medical Video: What's the best way to treat a sunburn?
- Alternative ways to deal with sunburned skin
- 1. Apply moisturizer
- 2. Compress the skin with something cold
- 3. Hydrate your body
- 4. Don't solve resilience!
- 5. Avoid sunlight
Medical Video: What's the best way to treat a sunburn?
Sunburned skin or commonly calledsunburn, is a condition in which the body skin is red, feels sore like burning, and even peels. This is usually caused by too long being under the hot sun or too long being exposed to ultraviolet (UV) rays.
Sometimes, in severe cases, this sunburn can cause level 2 burns, dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, infection, shock, and even death. Then, is there an easy way to deal with sunburned skin? Of course there are, try to see some simple ways below.
Alternative ways to deal with sunburned skin
1. Apply moisturizer
Immediately use a moisturizer in the form of a cream or ointment, for example a moisturizer containing vaseline. Moisturizers will hold water in your skin so it doesn't evaporate easily. In humid conditions, your skin will recover faster. The more often you apply moisturizer, the better.
2. Compress the skin with something cold
Before bathing and applying moisturizer on sunburned skin, you are allowed to relieve heat from the skin with cold compresses. Avoid applying ice directly to the skin. Cold temperatures that are too extreme because it actually endangers the skin.You can soak in cool water or compress with a towel soaked in cool water.
3. Hydrate your body
You also need to maintain your body fluids to speed up the recovery of sunburned skin conditions. It is recommended to drink mineral water or electrolyte fluids (for example coconut water) for treatment from inside the body.
Eating fruits such as oranges and watermelons that contain lots of water and are rich in vitamin C, can improve the healing process of burned skin. During healing, it is forbidden to be in direct sunlight while avoiding consumption of alcohol and sugar which can increase inflammation in the body.
4. Don't solve resilience!
If it appears resilient with water when your skin is sunburned, don't break it! Instead, you should keep these lentils from breaking. This resilience actually serves as a protection for the skin beneath it which is undergoing the healing process.
5. Avoid sunlight
Finally, of course you have to protect your skin from the sun. Damaged skin becomes more susceptible to sunlight. When exposed to sunlight, the conditions you experience can get worse. You can wear clothes that protect the skin from the sun, such as long-sleeved shirts, glasses, and hats. You can also use an umbrella. To be safer, you should use itsunscreenwhen leaving home.
