Happy healthy summer

Dr Saumya Shetty Hegde, Dermatologist, Roots Skin Clinic, doles out easy home remedies for treating sunburns

BEAUTY TALKS

After a beautiful weekend on beach or enjoying in amusement parks the sun, you only wants to bring back are those joyful memories and perhaps a souvenir. What you don’t want to return home is with angry-looking and painful skin, prone to blistering or peeling. For millions of people, however, sunburn is a lasting reminder of time spent in the sun.

As widely recommended is the sunblock and protection serums before heading out in the sun. However, a lot of people complain about getting sunburn regardless of the sunscreen application to every exposed part of the body parts. Because they forget the fact that a reapplication of it is required throughout the day, approximately after every 3-4 hours. Many of them apply it only before indulging in an outdoor activity which is very wrong.

Now comes is the right sunscreen to avoid sunburn: Like not all sunscreen works efficiently in the same way. There are various sunscreens available important is to understand your particular skin type and apply it. Note the levels of SPF, formula and area specifications. There is a distinctive sunscreen for each body part, face and lips.

When the skin is exposed to too much of ultraviolet lights (UV), whether it is from direct sun or from any other artificial sources such as sunlamps, sunburn can definitely occur. Thus easily done sunburn can also be avoided with adequate forms of preventions. But if not prevented at right time it might damage your skin which may lead to Cancers such as melanoma.

After sunburn your skin will be typically red, painful and hot to touch this happens within few hours. In severe cases you can form blisters on the skin and a sometimes an individual can experience headaches and fever, it differs from person to person. Roughly, 80% of CV rays could come through clothes, and also through snow, sand and