Sun Poisoning (6-26-08)

[KiaKat]

Yup. Been there. Done that.

Yuck.

Sunscreen, umbrella, sundress (long enough to cover most of my legs), towel, hat, shawl....

Still got sun poisoning. Fever of 102. That was in Italy.

That was the first time. Second time, I fell asleep on the beach near Woods Hole, Mass, during a school trip. Fever of 103.5. Luckily, that time we had a trained EMT with us, so she was able to treat me without them having to ship me back to the mainland (we were on Martha's Vineyard by the time the *real* symptoms hit).

I am such a little white girl.

[IK the Troll]

I have, thankfully, never had sun poisoning - but i've come close. I got a sun burn so bad that I had HUGE blisters all over my back, had to sleep on my stomach and I couldn't wear a shirt for about two weeks. The skin eventually peeled off in huge beef jerky-like chunks. It was a whole lot of no fun.

[Ruestir]

Never had the sun poisoning either thankfully. Though I did burn the tops of my feet something horrible. That was a miserable week.

[Ridenow]

My uncle fell asleep at the pool once. That was the first and last time until now that I had even heard of sun poisoning.

[Disco Duck]

I lived in Southern California my whole life and spent tons of time at the beach. As far as I can remember, I never had sun poisoning. Many painful sunburns, but that's about all. My younger brother once turned himself into a human lobster but I don't think he was sick from it...

[KiaKat]

I wonder if a tendency towards sun poisoning has any relation to sun allergies.

Both my grandmother and my aunt had/have severe sun allergies, and I have a sensitivity. Not that I mind, means I have a lower chance of ending up with melanoma (unlike the other 200 members of my family who've either been sick or died from it).

[DarkPirateShea]

i'm shocked my sister hasn't gotten sun poisoning. most recently she didn't apply her sunscreen well enough when she went to the pool. she ended up with a bright pink sunburn all around the edges of her baithing suit and her chest and face. her nose was actually bad enough that she had blisters. it almost looked like she had scraped her face on something.

[IK the Troll]

i'm shocked my sister hasn't gotten sun poisoning. most recently she didn't apply her sunscreen well enough when she went to the pool. she ended up with a bright pink sunburn all around the edges of her baithing suit and her chest and face. her nose was actually bad enough that she had blisters. it almost looked like she had scraped her face on something.

The blisters suck. Seriously. When I had MY episode they were monsterously huge, and I found out about them by attempting to take a hot shower. I still cannot quite put to words the pain that I felt the second the water hit my skin.....

But I can also tell you of the tale of a friend of mine who, while we were on a school sponsored vacation, fell asleep laying on her belly. Two hours later she awoke, to the realization that she'd forgotten to wear any suin screen at all. Her skin was not bright pink, it was a purplish burgundy. And she was hurtin' big time. I had had the forethought of bringing a bottle of Solarcaine and I handed it to her, and said, "Here, this is yours now. Happy Birthday." It helped a little, but she was still in Hell.

[Disco Duck]

I should qualify my statement of living in SoCal as "most of my young life". We moved several times to other states and back starting when I was about 12 ( I think).

[sableagle]

You realise the lot of 'em are going to die of skin cancer, don't you?

[Falling Man]

Sunburn Therapy.....

My friend passed out on the beach in Destin
for four hours, and got a horrible sunburn,
specifically to the front of his legs above his
knees.



He went to the hospital, and was promptly
admitted after being diagnosed with second-degree
burns. With his skin already starting to blister,
and the severe pain he was in, the doctor
prescribed continuous intravenous feeding with
saline, electrolytes, a sedative, and a Viagra pill
every four hours.

The nurse, who was rather astounded, asked,
'What good will Viagra do for him, Doctor?



The doctor replied, 'It won't do anything for his
condition, but it'll keep the sheets off his legs!!!'

[IK the Troll]

Bah-doomp-ching!

[Fount]

I have, thankfully, never had sun poisoning - but i've come close. I got a sun burn so bad that I had HUGE blisters all over my back, had to sleep on my stomach and I couldn't wear a shirt for about two weeks.

Ditto on the bad sunburn - I had a friend apply HER sunscreen on my back. Never thought to check to see if it was waterproof...sea, sand, good book, sea, sand, good book... and golf ball/half tennis ball sized blisters. I slept a week and a half face down on my massage table, got daily Japanese acupucture treatments (specifically geared for burns) and have no marks left. you would never know I had horrid sunburn.

[Sabertooth Kitten]

As a redhead I know all about those damn sunburns. Yeah I get freckles but they don't stop me from getting blisters if I don't wear lots of sunscreen.

Dad was worse that I was though, he didn't even get freckles, he just burned, blistered, peeled and burned some more.

[Farler]

I don't tan, at all. Even those years that I spent days in the sun going swimming every week. What happens eventually is my skin just goes red, lighter then a burn and without pain.