Quick Cures for Dry Skin
When a person’s skin becomes dry, the top layers of the skin are damaged and dying. It may feel rough to the touch, tight, and even sore, and most of all it won’t look healthy. Although there are many causes of dry skin, most of the time it is down to lack of basic skin care and environmental factors which are to blame.
There is no magical instant fix or quick cure for dry skin other than to begin taking the best care of your skin right away. If you follow the advice in this article and begin taking the best care of your skin, any damaged or dry skin ought to heal and become much healthier within a few weeks to a month and you will really notice a difference in how your skin looks and feels.
Skin usually becomes dry because of a lack of sebum. Sebum is the natural protective oils which the skins pores secrete to protect our skin from the elements. If the production of sebum drops off, particularly if our diets aren’t good, or as we get older, our skin can become increasingly dry as our skin finds it increasingly difficult to retain moisture and grow healthy. The key to keeping skin healthy is to give it as much of a helping hand in as many ways as possible.
You can do this by:
– Moisturising regularly, particularly after bathing or shaving will help protect your skin from the elements, keep it soft supple and moist. Moisturising is particularly important before going out in the cold, as this is where the most damage usually occurs.
– Bathing properly without excessively hot water, flannels and harsh shower gels or soaps. The above combination can wash and scrub the sebum oils from the skin almost completely, leaving your skin completely vulnerable to drying. The idea is to bath to clean, but work with your skin, not against it. Use lukewarm water, a skin friendly soap such as Dove or Olay, and avoid scrubbing utilities. The same goes for drying with a towel, pat yourself dry don’t scrub.
– Using a humidifier whilst you have central heating on can help to prevent the central heating from drying out your skin. This is perhaps one of the biggest reasons so many people suffer from bad skin during the winter, even if they don’t go out of the house much.
– Eating a good diet is all important. You’re skin can only be as good as the nutrients your body supplies it with, after all. Eating a good balanced diet with plenty of Vitamin A, B and C and sulphur minerals will make your skin much healthier.
What’s the quickest cure for a skin burn?
I burnt my arm on the exhaust of my TKM kart on saturday. It's been given me a fair bit of grief and I just wondered if anyone knew a quick remedy to cure it?
Try aloe or hydrocortisone.
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too late now but ten minutes in ice cold water would have reduced the healing time!
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get a toothpaste and put a little bit on the burn marks.
It may sound crazy, but it works.
do not wash with cold water!!!
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First aid is dip it in cold water. That would reduce the area/severity of burn and the wound heals faster.
Now that you have a burn, you need to cover it with an antibiotic cream/silver sulphadiazine cream. It will take about 3 weeks for deep burns to heal.
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Ignore everybody except Andy.His answer is correct and don't put anything on it lotion or cream, or any other fad substance.
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ice or ice water….it is too late for that. Aloe gel now…
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In my experience, cold water is soothing, and so is aloe vera gel. There is probably nothing you can do to heal it faster, but you can reduce the pain this way. Keep it clean and don't irritate it.
Ice or cold water right after the burn could have minimized the burn and so shortened healing time.
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I took the skin off the back of my hand last year and I was prescribed flamazine from the GP, Its just the kindest thing you can do for yourself, less pain and my skin grew back real fast. Good luck
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take regular advice by your family docter treat it in exepert,s supervision collect some herble trics by older person than treat it after present treatment wish you good health
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Aloe gel. Bathe in vinegar too, but you'll smell like an easter egg.
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maderma
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I would actually leave it completly. Keep it clean and dry and exposed to the air. Don't cover it unless the skin is really broken and pussie.
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put a tube of pure aloe vera gel in the fridge till its chilled and apply every couple of hours, if the burn starts to look inflamed or oozey, go to the gp as it can get infected and cause alot of problems for you
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Pure Lavendar essential oil. Get it from any health food store or health specialty store.
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The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils by Julia Lawless.
moisturise it every hour, e45 cream is good or anything with aloe vera in it, germolene should help too, don't apply anything perfumed to it and don't pick at it, clean it every morning and evening with clean warm water it should heal in a week or two
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You should, as some said, have put in in cold water, or held a cool wet flannel to it, for at least 10 minutes. I burnt myself badly a while ago, when I tipped a cup of boiling hot tea down my side. The skin came off and it stung like hell! And I cried…
I found some savlon cream in the cupboard, and it said it was ok to put on minor burns. I know you shouldn't put butter or anything on it, but medical creams are ok. At first it just made it feel tight and sore, and I wasn't convinced it was any good, but actually it helped it heal up really fast. You can also buy burn plasters, but they just keep it wet really. You need it to dry up.
To reduce scarring, once the burn has closed is covered with new pink skin, you should try bio-oil. I've heard that's really good for scars.
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There are no quick remedies for what you have.Burns are painful and require time to heal,silvadyne cream is the best thing for burns,It will require a visit to your doc for a script.DON"T put all that goo and crap everybody else is saying on yourself,you will end up with a much bigger problem.
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to aid the discomfort when you are sat down I'd wrap it in a cool damp towel or flannel and then when on the go apply something like aloe gel to cool it down which will promote healing and is antiseptic, Thing is to just keep it uncovered any clothes you have may irritate and inflame it so just let the wound breathe
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Always run burns either thermal or friction under clean cold water for at least ten minutes after the accident.
All you can do after that is apply a light linen dressing to stop dirt getting in. Preferably leave it uncovered and let your body do it's thing.
I normally would recommend the dressing for the first couple of days, just so you don't harm the healing skin by sleeping on it or accidentally knocking it.
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