What is best treatment for sunburn? Part 3

Sometimes a sunburn lesion can get infected. If you have the following features then your blisters are infected:

- Increased pain
- Swelling
- Redness which is spreading
- Area feels warm to touch
- Smelly Fluid discharge from blisters
- Fever
- Swollen glands in armpit, neck or groin

Symptoms to Watch For During Home Treatment

Most sunburn cases can be managed at home. However, some individual have severe burns and may require medical treatment. If you have the following symptoms, you need to see a health care professional

- Blurred vision
- Dizziness
- Fever
- chills
- Nausea
- Generalized body weakness
- Skin redness
- Pain and drainage

In the majority of cases, sunburn can be treated at home and one does not need to see a physician. However, if pain is severe, if there is fever and one is not getting better in a few days, it is worth paying a visit to a physician. Drinking adequate fluids is the key to early recovery.

The best way to prevent sunburn is to use a sunscreen regularly. There are hundreds of sunscreen and anyone with an SPF 20 is adequate. Other means of avoiding sunburn is to wear protective garments, staying in the shade and knowing when one has had enough sun for the day.

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What is the best and most immediate treatment for sunburn?

Now that the hot weather is around the corner, sun tanning is on everyone’s mind. Each year thousands of individuals develop sunburn from excessive sun exposure and no matter how much preventive advice is given, it usually goes unheeded.

Sunburn varies in degree. Mild cases are no big deal but most individuals develop moderate to severe degree sunburn. Once sunburn has occurred, there is no magical treatment to reverse the process. Sunburn skin becomes maximal 12-24 hours after exposure, but the treatment takes a lot longer to reverse.

There are methods to relieve pain and help healing of skin with simple home made remedies:

The first thing to do when you realize you have sunburn, is to get out of the sun.

Use a cold compress. This can be a moist towel, ice pack or a a nice cool bath. Cold compresses only help when applied soon after the burn. When cold therapy is taken soon after sunburn, swelling, pain and redness is generally much less.

Sunburn always dries up skin. Thus, it is very important to keep the skin moist. One may use any number of moisturizers. Aloe Vera is probably as good as any. If there is excessive peeling of skin and itching, one can also apply hydrocortisone. Hydrocortisone is available over the counter and will rapidly relieve both itching and dryness in no time.

Sunburn may look painful but the pain in most cases is mild to moderate. Over the counter pain pills like Motrin or Advil can help relieve the ache and redness