Every year 'Nautapa' takes place at the end of the month of May. According to the Hindu calendar, once a year for 15 days, the Sun enters the Rohini Nakshatra. During its first nine days, the distance between the Sun and the Earth decreases.
During the days of Nautapa, people are advised to leave their homes less.
According to the Hindu calendar, once a year for 15 days, the Sun enters the Rohini Nakshatra. During its first nine days, the distance between the Sun and the Earth decreases. The sun's rays fall vertically on the earth.
It is necessary to avoid sun burn these days
Sunburn - how best to protect yourself from it
Often sunburn is an unpleasant and painful reminder of the summer. Every year, many of us catch a fierce sunburn. This is not only painfully painful, but can also cause long-term damage. It is very easy to avoid sunburn.
In order to provide a little education, we have summarized all important information about sunburn:
What is sunburn?
Sunburn is now so common a term that hardly a larger thought about its precise definition makes. There is a lot you should know about it.
Generally speaking, sunburn is an acute inflammation of the skin, which is often classified as a first or second degree burn because it is very similar to it. It is caused when the ultraviolet rays of the sun (or from other sources) act on the skin and damage the tissue there.
For example, if the sun shines on the skin, then the UV rays act on it, among other things. They penetrate the skin and especially the epidermis - the uppermost skin layer - is affected. However, if the dermis, ie the underlying skin layer affected, then it can lead to the inflammation. Depending on which skin layer is affected, other rays are in use. These call also other appearances occur.
Although various components are at work in the sun's rays, many of the altered skin conditions occur mainly due to the ultraviolet (UV) rays. For example, they are responsible for the usual tan and also the redness that we can observe after a long stay in the sun.
The UV rays are subdivided into UVA and UVB rays. Although there are also the UV-C rays. However, these are filtered out in the upper atmosphere and therefore do not hit the skin. Basically, UV-A rays have the same intensity throughout the day, whereas the amount of UV-B rays varies throughout the day and is especially strong at lunchtime. Both the UV-A and UV-B rays have different properties and effects:
The UV-A are long-wave and are responsible for the well-known summer tan. This is usually immediate and short-term. However, they can also trigger the unpleasant sun allergy. Furthermore, it is also attributed to early skin aging and increased skin cancer risk. The reason for this is that the UV-A rays penetrate deep into the skin layers and attack the elastic fibers here. This is neither immediately visible nor noticeable. One sees the effect of cell damage only after a few years.
Immediately noticeable are the UV-B rays. These are shortwave and energetic beams. These are mainly responsible for sunburn. For the most part, they are blocked by the horny layer of the skin, but some of them invade the top layer. Here they also tan the skin a bit and then this tan also last longer, but they mostly cause sunburn. Because they penetrate very deep into the cell layer of the epidermis and destroy it, as this free radicals are released. Therefore it comes to the inflammation of the skin, which then becomes noticeable as sunburn.
What are the consequences of sunburn?
If the skin gets too much sun, then it quickly becomes apparent externally and internally on the body. Because this is a combustion, as it would occur in contact with fire. The intensity of sunburn depends on how long you have been under sunlight and also on your own conditions, such as your skin type.
If the skin is light, then it is more prone to sunburn than people who are more of a dark type. This is because fair-skinned women and men have less melanin in their skin. The skin pigment is also differentiated between eumelanin and pheomelanin. The former is produced by dark-skinned humans and since it makes good UV-B rays and free radicals harmless, it does not come so fast to sunburn. Phaeomelanin, however, is more likely to occur in fair-skinned people and this can protect only a small amount against the sun, which is why it is more common in this skin type to the said sunburn.
Sunburn manifests itself in various ways. In the places burnt by the sun, itches, tenses and burns often. Most are also strong redness and irritation visible. However, if the sunburn is very acute, it can even lead to blistering. These should not be opened by yourself, otherwise it can lead to infections. In some cases, it can also be that the top skin layer peels off. If this happens, scars usually remain as an unpleasant reminder of the fire.
The symptoms of sunburn usually appear 5-8 hours after the fire, until they reach their peak after 24-36 hours. Most of the symptoms disappear after a week. In severe cases, however, it may take several weeks for the burn to heal.
But not only redness and pain are the consequences of sunburn. It can also lead to premature aging of the skin. If you take certain medications, then the UV rays can then in conjunction with the drug also make the skin photosensitive. It may also cause other skin complaints such as actinic keratosis,
Basaliomas or malignant melanoma lead. Also, the risk of getting skin cancer increases enormously, if you often have sunburn.
Although the sun's rays can be very dangerous, it's important to get some sun from time to time. Because, the sun not only lifts the mood, but also the vitamin D production, which is needed for many important processes in the body, increases. One should protect oneself properly from the UV-A and UV-B rays.
How can you prevent sunburn?
It is much healthier (and easier) to prevent sunburn instead of treating this type of burn. However, you want to enjoy the sun in the park or on the beach and then have to expose yourself to the dangerous UV rays. Fortunately, there are some ways to protect yourself from the rays, but at the same time to soak up the sun:
The easiest way to protect yourself from the sun, if you hide his skin with a parasol, hat and long clothing. Because sun rays do not get to the skin surface and can do no damage. This protects even better than sunscreen cream. Nevertheless, you should never go to the sun until you have covered yourself with sunscreen from head to toe. Care should be taken to cover the entire body well with the cream and not forget sensitive areas such as lips, nose, neck and knees. In addition, you should cream yourself 30 minutes before going into the sun, so that the sunscreen has enough time to move into the skin and work. Furthermore, it is important to cream regularly so as to preserve the sunscreen. If you are on the beach or by the sea, then you should take special care. The water reflects the sun. This makes the sun's rays particularly aggressive. In addition, the cream, if not properly absorbed into the skin, can also dissolve in the water. So you lose your sunscreen and the risk of getting sunburn increases enormously.
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