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Infection and heat illness in the short term; skin cancer risk, early aging and pigmentation in the long term. What to watch after any burn.
Most sunburns heal completely in days. But a burn is real skin injury, and it pays to know the few complications that matter - immediate ones and the slow ones that arrive years later.
Fair skin, outdoor workers, children with repeated burns, people on sun-sensitizing medicines, and anyone with a family history of skin cancer.
Ayurvedic view (interpretive): Classical texts link chronic sun overexposure with deep pitta imbalance and skin disorders - a directionally fitting caution, though cancer risk is modern medicine's established finding.
Remember: Watch the burn for infection and the body for heat illness in the short term, and respect the long term: every burn is banked UV damage, so prevention and checking changing moles are the real protection.
Written By
Sanatan Ayurveda
BDS
Reviewed By
Dr. Varun Gupta
MD Pharmacology, MBBS
Last updated on
27 Sep 2022 • 06:23 PM (IST)
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