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A natural cure and treatment for sunburn
One thing that we must stress is that if you or a member of your family become badly sunburned then it is always wise to seek assistance from either a pharmacist in the first place and then hospital if they advise it.
Part of the reason why so many Brits suffer from sunburn is because we see so little of the great golden orb in the sky that when it does finally make an appearance, or when we are away somewhere warm on holiday we tend to over indulge!
Without doubt the best treatment for sunburn is to keep out of the sun between 12pm - 3pm and wear something light which will, to a certain extent, reflect the sun's rays. However, if you do become terribly burned, then here's an anecdote from a friend of ours who was shown this in Spain by an old lady who saw his predicament but who spoke no English at all!
"It was yonks ago when I went jobbing round southern Spain, sleeping in a tent or any accommodation the employer could supply. This particular day I was late for work and mistake No 1 was that I didn't put any sun cream on at all. Mistake No 2 was getting to work (outside) and immediately taking off my shirt. Mistakes 3 and 4 were not drinking enough water and spending far too long under the burning sun. One of my Spanish colleagues noticed at about 3 pm that I was very red, and indeed, I also felt sick as a dog and everywhere hurt like crazy - virtually 2nd degree burns. Anything that touched the skin was agony.
The old lady of the house was told and she took me inside to her vast old kitchen and went straight to the fridge for a big beef tomato. All I could do was stand there with legs apart and arms away from my body because touching was too painful.
She sliced the beef tomato and began to rub it gently over all over, throwing away the slices as they became drier. We got through 2 toms that way and a great deal of her patience. I was covered in dried tomato juice and pips by that time, and all I could do was to pray that her sunburn treatment would have at least some effect.
Night time was Hell on earth and thinking about it now 40 + years later I can still feel the dreadful pain. However, on waking the next morning I felt more or less normal and what should have been near enough a hospital case where they would have kept me in for a couple of days or so covered in whatever they use to treat acute sunburn was more or less cured overnight by one old lady and her grandmother's treatment with beef tomatoes."
Now, of course this is just an anecdote and we'd rather you didn't burn at all and kept safe in the sun. However, if you do happen to get sun burned, do let us know how you get on with the 'tomato treatment'!
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