mentioned it on here a couple times. went to sso yesterday and burnt like ye have never seen me burnt before...

sunstroke, trip to a&e and a big ol' pot of e45 and free drugs later... here it is 24hrs on...



the second one shows my skin colour and blistering better...



(trying to see the funny side a day on)
go on, im ready, but no nasty comments about my house decor ok, or il 'av ya

 

Ouch, reminds me of those turkish delights you get in the boxes covered in powder.

Glad your ok though

 

Errrm.................. OUCH !

 

ooooo painful.

 

Get some Aloe Vera stuff and whack it on, plus calamine lotion will help (looks like that might be what you have on your face in the pictures). I've found that both of the above are very good at soothing sunburn and I'm known for getting very burnt at the meresight sniff of the sun coming out (currently have semi-burnt arms, burnt neck and face is going red Didn't think to put sunblock on this morning when I went to meet the boss in the local Cafe, so am paying the price Wasn't overly sunny either, typical )

 

stuff in the pics is e45 creme out of a nice cold pot in the fridge. feels niiice when i slop it on.

been told by the nurst at the local a&e to keep my face moist. thinking of trying anti-histemines (sp??) for when the itching starts. any good examples?

 

Note to CoB, put the lotion on before going out in the sun all day!

 

jesus, im sure ive seen you in stephen king films

 

Andy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

jeez that's gotta hurt. i wouldn't take the **** though, having sunstroke is about the most ill i've ever felt. sick as a dog for days!

as recomended, aloe vera is a great soother

 

Surprised the hospital didn't give you a prescription for diprobase, which is rather good, used it when I have a flare-up of eczema and it moisturizes rather well.

I'm trying to think what I used to take when I had severe itching from eczema, fairly sure it was some prescription based anti-histamine thing. From what I recall, most anti allergy/hayfever stuff are just a/h's so you could try any of those.

The one thing, silly as it might sound, is DO NOT SCRATCH. I know it's bloody hard not too (used to have fairly bad eczema when I was a kid, so I know all about being told not to scratch, when all you want to do is scratch).

One other tip, wet a flannel and stick in on your head to cool you down, far less painful than sticking your head under a shower.

 

I was thinking Star Trek personally

 

yeah tried the flannel thing yesterday to take some of the initial sting out.

thing is my head was so warm, within 2-3 mins the flannel was drying out

thats when it started to scare me and i halucinated a little. good thing i had natalie here as i was well out of it for a little time. not pleasent i tell thee.

 

blimey i didnt think it was either hot or sunny glad i have some hair remaining as i normally burn easy!!

may go and buy some of that regaine stuff!!

 

natural yoghurt is good for sunburn but if that blistered suprised they didnt give steriod cream!

 

At least you have seen the Dr, I could say all sorts of evil things but that wouldnt be helpful, this happened to my Uncle, be careful it doesn't get infected and start to Fester.

 

I hope you wern't picturing Matt naked

 

They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The Addams Family.

Dan

 

 

BEFORE SUN



DURING SUN



AFTER SUN

 

the last pic is probably what "chocolate_o_brian" should look like

 

What do you mean should??????????????????????

 

got a little sun burnt myself but lucky no where has bad

 

Like a good little geek, I stayed in allllll weekend and built a new pc

I'm that pasty I'm almost see through.

 

That's going to sting. Did no-one have a baseball cap you could have borrowed?

 

If I were you, don't stand next to your scoob or your mrs will think the paint has faded!

 

behave you wuss

call that sunburn,

i managed to crisp my bonce on the last b/H weekend, and rescalped myself to boot .

Suncream pah

you try wearing a crash helmet for 2 races with a raw bonce.

even the cooling effects of a wet crash helmet didnt help


i reckon youve got chicken pox


Mart

 

ahhh, some T-Cut will buff it out fine


(well someone had too )

 

Go and see your pharmacist, they will advise. Eurax cream is good for itchy skin. For antihistimines I take cetirizine hydrochloride which is the generic version of Piriteze and is non-drowsy. Loratadine is the same as Clarityn and and Chlorphenamine is the same as Piriton but they can both make you drowsy (I think! ) Anyway they're all much cheaper than the branded versions

Oh and buy a baseball cap

Who said the sun never shines in North Yorks?

 

Piriton, that rings a bell. I know when I was taking my mock GCSE's I was prescribed something, which I think was Piriton, and it made me very drowsy indeed, so much so I couldn't sit the mocks as I started to fall asleep Seem to recall they were small pink pills, could be wrong though, was a fair few years ago.

Clarityn also rings a bell as something I took for hayfever, so that could be the aforementioned a/h thing I was thinking off.

Just you wait until that skin starts to peel, you're going to look really odd You might be lucky and be able to pull it off in a single sheet type thing, if so, you could go and scare people by seemingly ripping off your face