submitted by anon to askanon8 hoursMay 4, 2025 15:29:38 ago (+1/-0) (askanon)
My skin got badly burnt and have two red spots that look raw after a long day out in the sun. This was like 16 days ago and still look red. It hasn't healed.
If it's just red and sensitive, you're fine. It'll heal eventually. If it's swelling, numb, turning purple or black, or peeling repeatedly with increasingly wet layers, you've got a third degree sunburn and will definitely end up with a big weeping tumor at some point without surgery (and I only recommend surgery when certain death is the alternative.) However third degree sunburns are insanely hard to produce, because unlike with actual heat sources, your cells rapidly mutate and die under intense ultraviolet radiation and form an effective barrier against deeper mutagenic damage. Third degree sunburns are usually found in people who get a severe sunburn, and then proceed to get extreme exposure for days afterwards.
You probably don't have one and have nothing to worry about, unless you did the above.
anon 1 points 4 hours ago
If it's just red and sensitive, you're fine. It'll heal eventually. If it's swelling, numb, turning purple or black, or peeling repeatedly with increasingly wet layers, you've got a third degree sunburn and will definitely end up with a big weeping tumor at some point without surgery (and I only recommend surgery when certain death is the alternative.) However third degree sunburns are insanely hard to produce, because unlike with actual heat sources, your cells rapidly mutate and die under intense ultraviolet radiation and form an effective barrier against deeper mutagenic damage. Third degree sunburns are usually found in people who get a severe sunburn, and then proceed to get extreme exposure for days afterwards.
You probably don't have one and have nothing to worry about, unless you did the above.