What to do if burned in the sun.

Summer – a long-awaited time, especially for people who live in the north. Every year, with approach of heat, we seek to leave at least for a while the native land and to go on the deserved, long-awaited vacation is closer to the sea or the beach on other reservoirs.

Coming to a holiday, we stand out from the crowd in color of the skin at once. Against the background of local suntanned inhabitants, northerners look very pale and even cyanotic. In certain cases from discomfort can save autosuntan by means of bronzator (for example from St.Moriz producer), before obtaining own suntan. But, as a rule, we seek to sunbathe as fast as possible constantly being in the sun.

The truth so not reasonable approach to stay under sunshine, can threaten with serious consequences: from easy reddening to serious burns and high temperature.

Unfortunately, such incidents happened to me more than once, since the childhood (when about sunblock creams I did not even suspect). First of all burn the most unprotected and most available places to the sun on a body and a face: shoulders, back and nose. But once, I so underestimated the northern sun (in the Arkhangelsk region) that at me the forehead burned and from it skin began to oblazit. Fortunately, it was the isolated case which to me demonstrated that it is necessary to watch carefully skin at influence of sunshine.

On own experience I tried different ways of leaving, behind the skin which burned on the sun which I want to share.

Folk remedies.
This by what we were treated in the childhood. Also these ways very much help out when you are in the distance from drugstores and shops, and the necessary means, just ended. Besides, it is, as a rule, natural ingredients which do harm to skin will not be able but only will alleviate suffering. It is not obligatory to apply these ways, but it is necessary to know. You never know …

* Cool bathtub + sour cream (kefir, curdled milk, cream). This means of first aid in the village. Children's memoirs keep the memory of rural rest at the grandmother when it had the cow. In the first days of a holiday, all children rewalking in the sun, at first cooled in slightly cool bathtub, and then densely smeared with cream or curdled milk. Still I remember this smell on skin …

* Fresh potatoes or cucumber. One of these products is grated, slightly wring out juice and stacked on the inflamed sites of skin.

Burns ointment
With the advent of children at a road first-aid kit I always have means which can help to alleviate suffering when reddening skin or when receiving a burn from sunshine.
* At the beginning, I used Bepanten. I bought this universal remedy for fight against an intertrigo from kids and also it was useful at treatment of various damages on skin including solar burns.
* Then, when there was a need to use means against an allergy, we applied various ointments and Fenistil gels, Gistan, La-Cri. Not hormonal a large amount of extracts of officinal herbs, as a rule, contain these medicines and well cope with an itch, irritation and inflammation on skin therefore they relieve pain at solar burns. By the way, we applied them to fight against stings of insects. Therefore is the real rescue in the summer.
* Now, most often I apply Pantenol.

Means after suntan
If skin reddening not big, then similar means you by all means return yourself good health and will get rid of reddening on skin. Usually, I store balm after suntan in the refrigerator to give it the additional cooling property.

Well, and the most important to follow rules of suntan that then was not excruciatingly painful (literally this word) for negligence to itself and the body.

* Not to sunbathe and be in a shadow during the periods of the most intensive sunlight (from 12 to 15 o'clock);
* To apply sun-protection funds to skin;
* To sunbathe gradually: since 30th minute period and over time to increase the stay period on the sun;

All of good mood more than hot sunny days!