How can you maximize complaining in this situation? If at all possible, put on aloe in public and make sure to groan emphatically while applying. The most important cure for a sunburn, like most things, is to whine about it. Taking a couple of these pain killers will take the edge off your burn, but also lower any resulting post-burn fever. Additionally, go ahead and pick up an over the counter anti-inflammatory pain reliever such as ibuprofen, naproxen or aspirin. Lotion with alcohol in it will actually cause your sunburn to dry out even more thereby resulting in your crying for days.
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A good moisturizer will help keep your skin from peeling, but make sure to buy one free of alcohol or perfumes. 1% hydrocortisone cream can also keep down burn swelling. You definitely want to have 100% aloe vera on hand or better yet, an entire aloe plant (it’s going to be a long beach season). Just go ahead and stop a that the drug store before you even get to the beach in the first place. Ensure that you shower after trying any food based remedies so that you’re not gross forever, and avoid contact with your private bits as to avoid getting a totally awful infection. While you’re lying down on the ground, go ahead and spread some pulverized raw potato pulp on your back. This is particularly effective if you burned your entire back and want to just lie on your stomach on the ground for hours anyways. Then spray the affected area with vinegar. You can just put half white vinegar half water in a spray bottle. By far the best food cure for a sunburn, in my experience, is vinegar. Just soak some gauze in a glass or room temperature milk and then apply as a compress to the burned skin. My childhood best friend’s mom used to always tell me it was because the milk “draws out the heat.” This sounds like some non-science to me, but milk sure does the body good. Milk is another great option for curing sunburns.
Baking soda can be put in your bath or mixed with water to make a paste and applied directly to the burn. There are a suspiciously large number of foods that magically cure sunburns that are readily available in the kitchen of your beach rental. I’m going to go ahead and say that a cool bath will probably do you just as well (and, with a glass of white wine, help you to move on from some of those Dyke Weekend mistakes). Unfortunately, you’ll have to add more ice as you lie in the tub because the massive heat radiating from your reddened skin will actually warm up the water. I’ve never tried one myself because I’m a giant wuss about being cold, but if you can stand it, fill a bathtub with cold water and dump ice inside. If your sunburn is all over, apparently ice baths also just fix every sunburn. If your sunburn is odd or localized (like on one shoulder) you might find that ice will help. And yes, this is as straightforward as it sounds you just wet a wash cloth.
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