how bad are sunburns for your skin?

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Lifer
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I was at a toyota car show for a couple of hours and I got a light sunburn, I'm a little pink. I don't think it's going to peel however.

I've heard that even a handfull of sunburns over a lifetime significantly increases one's chances of getting skin cancer and such.
 
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Lifer
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That's true. Severe sunburns are far, far worse though. I wouldn't worry about it, lirion is probably right.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: lirion
I bet stressing out over it is worse for you.
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I'm a pretty boy, I don't want to be walking around all pink and stuff. :p



 
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Spac3d

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hahaha I am so glad I can't get sun burned. I love every minute that I am in the sun:D

I get darker, but I don't get burned (even when it was 120 degrees outside I didn't get burned).

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Every burn means you've sustained substantial damage to your skin which is the prerequisite to the majority of US skin cancers. Even the darkest individuals should use sunscreen liberally if they plan to be outside for several hours. Light-skinned people have to face a brutal truth . . . you can't fight Mother Nature. The beautiful bronzing in your teens and twenties will turn into leathery, wrinkled skin and precancerous lesions in your thirties and forties.


 
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TNTrulez

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Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
Every burn means you've sustained substantial damage to your skin which is the prerequisite to the majority of US skin cancers. Even the darkest individuals should use sunscreen liberally if they plan to be outside for several hours. Light-skinned people have to face a brutal truth . . . you can't fight Mother Nature. The beautiful bronzing in your teens and twenties will turn into leathery, wrinkled skin and precancerous lesions in your thirties and forties.
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True dat. No wonder lots of middle age white peeps are ugly.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
Every burn means you've sustained substantial damage to your skin which is the prerequisite to the majority of US skin cancers. Even the darkest individuals should use sunscreen liberally if they plan to be outside for several hours. Light-skinned people have to face a brutal truth . . . you can't fight Mother Nature. The beautiful bronzing in your teens and twenties will turn into leathery, wrinkled skin and precancerous lesions in your thirties and forties.
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That's what I was afraid of. :(

I almost never spend lengthy periods of time in the sun, but it slipped my mind this time to bring a hat or sunblock. Sometimes, I'll see a blonde woman in her 40s or so with really leathery skin and I think, she got waaayyy too much sun while she was young. :(



 
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Maverick2002

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Spac3d: you obviously haven't been to the real burn spots. I ran Track for 3 months and got really dark but never burned. Then I went to the lake for 5 hours and came home looking like Mr.Krabs.
 
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Alphathree33

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My skin turns pink when I've been out in the sun for a while. It then turns into a nice tan. That's not a burn unless it hurts and your skin begins to peel.
 
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Harvey

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Sunburn damage is cumulative and can lead to skin cancer. Aren't you glad someone invented sunblock?
 
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Alphathree33

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Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
Originally posted by: Alphathree33That's not a burn unless it hurts and your skin begins to peel.
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How much do you want to bet?
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I don't want to bet anything. It's just that what he's describing sounds a lot like the way I get when I'm just getting a bit tanned.
 
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Jmmsbnd007

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Originally posted by: Alphathree33
Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
Originally posted by: Alphathree33That's not a burn unless it hurts and your skin begins to peel.
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How much do you want to bet?
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I don't want to bet anything. It's just that what he's describing sounds a lot like the way I get when I'm just getting a bit tanned.
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Hint: Any red/pinkness showing up is actually lots of damaged blood vessels. Damaged and destroyed blood vessels = baaad.
 
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Maverick2002

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Getting a tan = bad no matter how you look at it; just different degrees. You can chose to be dark all the time or you can choose to be pale. Or you can choose to be in-between. Sooner or later it'll catch up to you but no one lives forever anyway.
 
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Darein

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I am totally screwed. I've gotten sunburns on top of sunburns before. The price to pay living in Hawaii as a white guy, who refuses to wear sunscreen. Hopefully when I am in my 30's and 40's they will have a pill to cure it. That is what I am banking on now. :D
 
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dakata24

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you're gonna look all wrinkly like robert redford in a few years if you keep that up... :p
 
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kduncan5

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I honestly believe that the Sun is a helluva lot more dangerous these days than it used to be. I got a bad case a sun poisoning a couple of years back and it was totally unlike any sunburn I'd ever had. My legs were so bad I could hardly walk, and I still have itching sensations in the middle of my back sometimes (where I can't hardly reach
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Definitely use sunblock. -kd5-
 
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