8 tips for treating faster sunburn

To treat sunburn, reducing pain and discomfort caused skin, it is recommended to bathe with cold water, drink plenty of water throughout the day and pass a moisturizing cream on site.

It is also important to adopt strategies to avoid new solar burns, which can aggravate discomfort and also worsen the existing burn. For this, sunscreen should be passed every day and avoid exposure in the hottest hours and use cap or hat, for example.

Also read: Burning: symptoms, degrees, types, what to do and treatment

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In the case of severe sunburn, where the skin is very red, with bubbles or lesions in multiple layers, or the person has fever and a lot of pain, it is recommended to go to the emergency room to do the proper treatment. See how the burn treatment is done.

8 Tips for treating sunburn

Some tips for treating any burns faster and naturally are:

1. Cool the skin well

The first tip is perhaps the most important in the whole process of taking care of a sunburn and consists of cooling the skin well.

For this, you should take a bath with cold water, letting the water run in the affected site for 5 to 10 minutes, to ensure that all layers of the skin cool and stop burning.

2. Take a bath with cold water

Bathing with cold but not cold water can help relieve the discomfort caused by sunburn.

This tip can be done every time you take a shower until the burn gets better.

3. Apply cold compresses

Applying compresses with cold water at the sun of the sun burn also helps relieve discomfort, as well as decrease swelling and pain.

One option is to do compress with cold chamomile tea, as chamomile is a medicinal plant with soothing and healing property, promoting the relief of pain and burning discomfort. Check out other homemade homemade remedies for sunburn.

4. Avoid hygiene products

Hygiene products, such as soap and soap, can harm the skin, favoring its dryness.

Therefore, in case of sunburn, it is best to take a bath only with water, at least in the affected place, and without rubbing the skin.

At the time of drying, it is also recommended to use the towel at the burn site, letting it dry outdoors.

5. Moisturize the skin

Another very important tip to treat sunburn is to moisturize the skin well every day, just after bathing and several times a day, applying a good moisturizing cream to combat the dryness of the affected skin.

Moisturizing cream can be placed in the refrigerator as it has a colder temperature, which also helps to promote relief of sunburn symptoms.

Moisturizing and soothing creams based on medicinal plants, such as aloe shape, will also be used, as this will further calm the skin, reducing discomfort.

Also read: How to use aloe in burns (and why it works)

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6. Drink plenty of water

Increasing water consumption during the day is very important to keep the body and skin hydrated, which also helps alleviate sunburn discomfort, avoid dryness and peeling and favor skin healing.

Thus, it is recommended to drink about 2 liters of water a day, but this may vary according to weight and age. Learn about calculating the amount of water you should drink per day.

7. Put cucumber or potato slices on the skin

Cucumber or cold potato slices can also help relieve pain and discomfort caused by sunburn, as they have regenerating properties, promoting rapid relief.

8. Consume healing foods

Some foods such as milk, yogurt, egg, tuna or broccoli have healing properties that help take care of the skin and decrease inflammation of sunburn, promoting faster recovery.

On the contrary, foods rich in sugar or with many additives can impair recovery.

Thus, making a diet rich in healing foods and poor in processed foods, for example, is another great way to nourish the body and help healing the burn. See a more complete list of healing foods.

First aid for burns

Nurse Manuel Reis shows in the following video everything he can do in case of burning on the skin:

How to avoid sunburn

To avoid sunburn, it is important:

• Avoid staying in the sun when the sun is stronger, usually between 10h and 16h;
• Spend sunscreen every day, with at least SPF 30, even on cloudy days and reapply whenever necessary;
• Wear cap or hat and sunglasses;
• Drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration;
• Constantly wet the skin, going straight into the water or with the aid of a spray, to avoid its dryness.

It is also important to note that sun exposure should be done in moderation, as it increases the likelihood of diseases such as skin cancer, which mainly affects skin and light eyes.