Why does your Skin Peal after you get a Sun Burn?

Question

just wondering?

Answer 1

What happens is that is damaged skin at that point, due to the UV rays. Therefore, your body no longer needs those skins cells anymore, so your body flakes and peels to get rid of it. In fact, the dust that accumulates on our furniture and elsewhere, is dead skin cells that our body sheds every so often. The skin that peels off after a bad sun burn is a larger version of the "dust".

Answer 2

good answer Pete, you are correct...except we shed skin cells EVERDAY, all day and night. Just when a sunburn happens those top layers of skin are destroyed by the sun and are of no use... and it is a BURN like a burn from a flame or anything else that is scalding hot..Its your bodies way of protecting itself. Thats why in a bad sunburn it bubbles and turns to little blisters, trying to cool itself down and protect it

Answer 3

When you get sun burn it is basically a infection that needs to be gone. Your body does what it usually does when a part of your body is infected . Your body than knows that the skin should then be rid of.

Answer 4

Actually, my skin never "peals," although sometimes it peels. The bells on my local church tower peal lots of times, though.

Answer 5

your body is getting rid of the infected area so it can rejuvenate itself

Answer 6

cuz its dead skin after it has been burnt