Out in the sun a bit too long?
I’m blond and I have very fair skin. When I was a child, we didn’t know about the dangers of sunburns and I burned *badly* so many times over the years that I can’t recall how often.
Many of these burns were so bad that they would be treated in an emergency department these days. I had huge blisters on my shoulders and I remember that dehydrated feeling that comes with the burns. I remember nights of not being able to sleep because I had to sit up. I also remember the cure-all of the days: Noxcema. It was in a big blue jar and smelled like you wouldn’t believe. We’d smother the stuff on my burns and then wait for me to peel like mad. To this day, I can’t believe my skin isn’t scarred all over because of all this.
Now, there are many different things available to use for burns - which we aren’t supposed to get - right? But, it happens. Personally, I like to use aloe vera when it happens. There are creams and sprays that are sold just for sunburns. But some people like to use a corticosteroid cream.
Corticosteroids are used to reduce inflammation so the premise would make sense, but research has found that the corticosteroid creams don’t help because by the time they’re used, it’s too late for them to do any good.
A study, published in the Archives of Dermatology found that the severity of the sunburn wasn’t affected by use of corticosteroid creams. You can read more about this in the article, Corticosteroid creams no help for sunburns.
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