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Ouch! Got a sunburn?  Try some of these tips to help get some relief:

Try an Old Home made recipe of cool milk compresses.  It really is supposed to help, though I have not tried this myself.  Use cool not cold milk to soak some cloths, and apply to your skin.  The proteins in the milk are said to give skin a protective coa that helps prevent water evaporation, which is important as your skin needs moisture to heal properly. The cool milk compresses should help soothe sunburned skin and take the sting away.

Drink green tea or pomegranate extract or juice. Both have soothing anti-inflammatory benefits, and  they both have strong antioxidants, to help lessen some of the unseen damage that UV exposure is doing to your sunburned skin.
Aloe is a true and tried anti-inflammatory product that will soothe and cool sunburned skin. It is best to use Aloe the first day of a sunburn.

When your skin begins to peel, moisturize and moisturize again,  Do not pick at the peeling skin, though you may be tempted to.  Just moisturize as often as you can.

Taking  ibuprofen (400 mg every four hours) until the redness goes away is also said to help.  Just as this anti-inflammatory can minimize the swelling of a sprained ankle, it can reduce the inflammation of burned skin.

And remember next time you spend some outdoor fun in the sun–slather on the sunscreen.  And repeat the slathering if you are in the sun and/or water for an extended period of time. Use a good broad-spectrum sunscreen that’s one that blocks both UVA and UVB, the two types of ultraviolet light that can damage skin.

Irene Bellamy wrote this on July 22nd, 2008 and filed it under Healthy Living |