What to do if you have a red, burning, painful sunburn

Sunburn redness and pain, also known as acute sunburn, solar dermatitis, the disease can be treated through daily care, oral medication, topical medication and other ways. 1. daily care: if sunburn red hot pain, first of all, should avoid the sun again, do a good job of sunscreen, and secondly, the patient can use local moisturizing cream, redness and swelling is serious, you can use gauze soaked in ice saline and other wet compresses, to improve the symptoms. 2. Oral medication: sunburn redness, usually accompanied by pain or burning sensation, and obvious symptoms, you can take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to relieve pain, such as ibuprofen, etc.; you can also take antihistamines to reduce the allergic reaction, such as chlorpheniramine maleate. 3. Topical drugs: patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to use drugs to improve symptoms to relieve local redness, swelling, pain symptoms, such as compound menthol ointment; can also be applied locally glucocorticoids and other drugs for anti-inflammatory treatment to improve the symptoms, to promote the recovery of the condition, such as hydrocortisone butyrate cream. Sunburn redness and pain will usually recover on its own, such as the need for medication should be used under the guidance of a doctor, can not be used indiscriminately, so as not to lead to adverse consequences. Usually patients also need to do a good job of sunscreen.