Severe Sunburn Take a cool bath--not ice cold, but cool--and don't use bath salts, oil or bubble bath.
Do not scrub your skin or shave your skin. Use an extra soft, absorbent 100% cotton towel and pat your skin dry. Use a sunburn remedy containing Aloe Vera. Use a light moisturizer or a dusting of power to ease chafing and irritation of the skin. Stay out of the sun! If the sunburn is severe or you are blistering, feel faint or nauseous, see a doctor immediately. Carry a waist bag that can also be worn in the water for quick and easy access to your sunscreen. Use a generous amount of sunscreen with a Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of at least 15 before going into the sun. Every 2 hours, reapply sunscreen especially if sweating a lot. Also, reapply after swimming. Pay particular attention to the more prone sunburn areas of the body such as your face, nose, ears, upper back, and shoulders. Reapply sunscreen to exposed areas such as face, upper back, and shoulders every 2 hours when just standing in water, walking on the beach, or playing sports. Carry a beach umbrella to shade yourself when ever you and your family are lying on the beach and not in the water. Make sure your beach umbrella that has a reflective undercoating with a SPF of at least 35 to fully block out the sun. Wear a loose cotton shirt to protect and prevent your back and shoulders from being sun burnt if you do not use a beach umbrella. Cover your legs with a beach blanket while sitting on your beach chair if you do not use a beach umbrella. Wear a sun hat to protect and prevent your head, nose and face from being sun burnt if you do not use a beach umbrella. Wear wrap-around sunglasses with UV protection to protect your eyes from the sun's UV light. Use lip balm with sunscreen to protect and prevent your lips from being sun burnt. Wear slippers to protect the soles of feet from being burnt before walking on the beach's dry hot sand. Minor and uncomplicated cases of sunburn cause discomfort and no long-lasting effects. You can expect to feel better in 4-7 days. You may see peeling. This is often associated with severe itching, especially at night, after sweating, or after showering. Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
