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Summer is the season of vacations and active recreation. But it is precisely at this time that a person forgets about the danger to which he is exposed, being under the burning rays of the heavenly light. Sunburn is especially common for people who are relaxing on water bodies, because water procedures and a light breeze cool the skin, and a person does not notice that he has already burned. A burn is especially dangerous for a child, since his delicate and thin skin is not ready for an increased dose of ultraviolet light, so the burning process is faster and more painful. Therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to sun protection, using creams, sprays and lotions. How to help the victim, if they did not look after themselves and did not protect themselves?
Sunburns are divided into light and serious, and depending on the degree of burning, treatment should be applied, for example, cream bepant price which is quite acceptable. But in any case, the victim should immediately be protected from sunlight, the affected areas should be moistened with water or covered with a damp cloth and given to drink water, preferably mineral water. If blisters appeared on the skin, and the condition is accompanied by dizziness, high temperature, vomiting, then you should definitely consult a doctor and call an ambulance. In that case, if there are no signs of redness and unpleasant itching on the body, then it is possible to cope with it on your own.
Even a slight sunburn does not appear immediately, but after half an hour. Therefore, at the slightest symptoms, you should leave the territory not protected from the sun. The next thing to do is to take a light shower or cover the body with a damp cloth for 20-30 minutes. If painful sensations appear, you can take tablets containing analgesics. Abundant drinking will replenish the amount of fluid in the body, so even if you do not feel very thirsty, you should force yourself and drink at least a liter of mineral water.
The next stage is aimed directly at the treatment and healing of the affected areas, that is, it will speed up the process of restoring skin cells, saturating it with vitamins and moisture. Medicines that doctors always advise travelers to keep at hand will help in this.
Before lubricating the damaged areas, be sure to check the integrity of each cover. Do not open the blisters, if they already exist, then it is worth disinfecting them: the places around the lesion are wiped with a cotton swab moistened with an alcohol solution, and the focus of the lesion with furatsilin solution can be poured directly from the bottle. The damaged areas are bandaged with a sterile clean bandage and the bandage is changed after 3–4 days. If the skin is clean, it is enough to use plain water for moisturizing. Even a light touch to the skin sometimes causes unpleasant sensations, so you can use not ointments and lotions, but sprays - Panthenol or Bepanten. They not only moisturize the skin, but also contain a wound-healing component - vitamin B5. Indomecin ointment or Diclofenac gel will help to relieve swelling.
There are also some folk medicine remedies, but many of them do not so much help, but on the contrary - aggravate the situation. Thus, the use of ointments containing fats and oils form a film barrier on the surface of the skin, which prevents the damaged area from recovering, and the very structure of the fat mass becomes a favorable environment for the formation and life of pathogenic microorganisms. So, if there are no medical preparations at hand, then it is better to leave the skin without treatment in general.
