No matter what time of year it is I wear 3 quarter sleeves when I go outside. I wear pants even when I swim. And I wear the highest protection sun block I can find. Which is usually 50 block. I re-apply it every half and hour. I even set my watch to sound to remind me. Yet I still end up with blisters all over. Even where my clothes covered me! Short of staying inside 24/7, how can I not get burned. I even get sunburned in the middle of winter.
2006-06-30 07:41:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
When I was a baby, my mother one time set me outside while she hung up the wash, that was the first time I got burned like this. and I have been ever since. And now I'm 28 years old!!!
2006-06-30 07:51:59 · update #1
One time a few weeks ago I woke up later then usual. I had no where I needed to be. It was probably around 7:30 in the morning. Sometime during the night my curtain had come open and the sun had gotten to my face. I had a blister on my cheek about the size of a half dollar.
2006-06-30 07:58:03 · update #2
I would make an appointment with a dermatologist to take a look at your skin. You may be lacking the natural protection most people have in their skin and there is a disorder like that. Please go make an appointment and be SURE its a dermatologist.
2006-06-30 07:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by WiserAngel 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Some people are sort of "allergic" to the sun. They burn and blister whenever they are exposed to it. Called polymorphic light eruptions (or PMLE), this allergic reactions can range in severeness - from a mild annoyance to a severe condition that forces people to become "night walkers" - these are these are the ones who can stand no sun whatsoever.
PMLE reactions are not as uncommon as people think. In fact, it has been estimated that sun allergies affect 10-15% of the population (usually mildly). The allergy is most common in women between 25 and 45. There can sometimes be underlying causes of this allergy, so you want to make not of any other conditions you might have.
I suggest making an appointment with the dermatologist. There are some medications that they can prescribe, although it is most likely that you will have to make some lifestyle changes. They'll tell you exactly what you have to do to keep burn-free.
For more info, visit http://www.drinkdeeplyanddream.com/realvampire/sunallergy.html
Some of it is a little bizarre, but it is mostly straightforward and accurate - and it doesn't make the condition seem as scary as the sites focusing on the worst cases do.
Good luck.
2006-06-30 14:50:22 · answer #2 · answered by bezi_cat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To the person who said it was not possible to get burned in winter. It is possible. A person does not necessarily get sunburned from the heat, but from the light of the sun. What makes it cold as in winter is the temperature, not the sun or lack there of. And you can get sunburned even on a cloudy day. Because think about it even though you don’t see it, the sun is out. Other wise it would be as it is at night: pitch black.
2006-06-30 15:27:48 · answer #3 · answered by d4rkr4v3n77 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's really unusual. Sounds like a low melanin count or ultra sensitive skin. Sunblock has a solvent in it which, really, is bad for you. All solvents have one form of carcinogen in them or another. It actually will cook or dry out the skin.
Zinc oxide in mineral oil sounds like a better alternative at the drug store, way lots cheaper, not necessarily pretty, but depending on application will totally block.
Diet may have something to do with it too with an implied possible genetically inheritted deficiency. See a reliable dermatologist first. Also, look at alternative healing and a whole foods diet.
Let me know how it works out. This'll give me time to put a small list of things you might want to check out on the net and you decide if they make sense or not. Okay? Okay.
2006-06-30 14:48:20 · answer #4 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sound liek your allergic to sun, if this is the case you should have a doctor working in conjunctiuon with you wearing a bee suit when you go outside!
2006-06-30 14:44:28 · answer #5 · answered by MuffinPuff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are a liar. How do you get sunburned in the winter. Not possible.
Maybe wind burn on your face from the cold, don't be a liar
2006-06-30 15:08:10 · answer #6 · answered by lovebug1234 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a doctor.
2006-06-30 14:44:00 · answer #7 · answered by ndmac 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
girl you really need to go to the doctor.... even though it is rare you could be alergic to the sun...
2006-06-30 14:48:14 · answer #8 · answered by Star DUst 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋