Health Tip: Soothing a Child's Sunburn (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- If your child has an uncomfortable sunburn, here are suggestions to help it heal and to soothe the youngster's pain, courtesy of the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital: Give the child a cool bath. Apply a cool compress. Apply a moisturizer, aloe or hydrocortisone cream. Avoid products with Benadryl or benzocaine to minimize the risk of a reaction. Give the child acetaminophen or ibuprofen for pain. Leave any blisters alone to reduce risk of infection. Do not try to pop or drain them. Keep the child out of the sun until the burn heals.

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pour a bottle of Listerine mouthwash into about 1 inch of bath water. using a face cloth, ensure you get the bath water all over the child, especially the sun burnt areas

the Listerine is an antiseptic that kills the bacteria, which is what makes the sunburn itchy and painful

do NOT apply Listerine directly to the burn, use the diluted Listerine only

i'm allergic to Aloe Vera, so that does NOT sooth the burn for me at all, Aloe Vera is a product that is absorbed thru the skin barrier, so you can't just wash it off either!

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kate

I put vitamin e on sunburns. It soothes the burn and heals it three times as fast. The skin absorbs it and it's a vitamin the skin needs to survive. I just wish the scientist would of known about it when I was 11, I had second and third degree sunburn on my body.

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A.K.A. Christopher