you have gone to the beach maybe apply
sunscreen maybe you haven't notice if
you get a sunburn
what are you going to do the first thing
you're going to do is complain to me
your dermatologist or your significant
other saying how much it hurts totally
understandable what's the best thing to
do the first thing is you want to just
get out of Sun and stay out of the Sun
as much as you can for the next week
here's a little bit of sort of a home
remedy that actually can work well you
can put cold washcloth in your
refrigerator soaked in milk and you can
apply those to the areas where you have
the sunburn and what that does is the
cooling effect will take some of the
heat out of the sunburn and the milk
actually contains lactic acid which is
one of the reasons that Cleopatra used
it in her baths which made her look very
gorgeous this actually will take off
some of the top layers of skin so if
you've got blistering it actually can
make it look better and heal faster one
other option is you can use aloe vera or
other natural products like this to sort
of calm down the pain that you're having
some of the gels that are on the market
for sunburns actually contain lidocaine
and benzocaine and what they do is they
temporarily are going to take away the
pain from the sunburn but then as soon
as they wear off you're going to be in
worse shape because you're actually
going to feel the pain even more so I
don't like using these products all that
much one other thing that I like to have
my patients do is you can take aspirin
or you can take just a general
anti-inflammatory this is because your
skin is inflamed it's angry it's red and
it's painful and so what you want to do
is take something any anti-inflammatory
so motrin tylenol aspirin also works
that's going to help you out a lot in
terms of your pain