How long does it take for a red sunburn to heal?

Generally speaking, patients with reddened sunburned skin may get better in about a week after prompt care and treatment. But the specific recovery time and the degree of sunburn and patient care related. Sunburned people, skin redness is mostly due to ultraviolet radiation damage to the skin, which in turn causes inflammation of the skin, the phenomenon of redness, sometimes accompanied by itching, severe peeling, for the sunburned skin redness of the crowd, in the timely care of the patient, after treatment, a week or so may be restored. If the degree of sunburn is serious, the patient did not timely care, treatment, then it may take longer to recover, can not be generalized. People with sunburn should pay attention to timely sun protection. Under the guidance of a doctor to use topical application of drugs, such as fusidic acid cream, hydrocortisone ointment, etc., but the specific treatment of the recovery should still ask a professional doctor.