He hopped in a shower and put aloe vera on when he got out. I guess the aloe was really doing its job, because he was in extreme pain of needing to itch his sunburn. I felt so helpless because I didn't know how to help him. So, I went online to look up remedies for sunburn itch. Everything that I looked at said to shower with cool water (done), put aloe vera on (done), take pain killers (done)...ugh. I kept looking, and, of course, the next things I found, we didn't have, and couldn't go get, because by now it was 1:30am. Some said to put white vinegar on the burn, or take an oatmeal bath, or rub anti-itch creme for sunburn.
Then, finally, I found a home remedy that involved something that we had in the house...tea bags!? It said:
This is incredible: brew enough tea bags to cover a considerable area of the sunburn and ice down to get the tea really cold. Place the cold, wet tea bags and/or a rag drenched in the tea over the affected area, keeping the bags and rags cold. If you can submurge the burned part of the body, do so into the tea. Do this for at least one hour as often as you can (3 or so times a day) until it fades. This works for second and third degree burns as well and will prohibit scarring! The tea works as an antioxidant and pulls the heat out of your body. It stops the pain temporarily also.
So, I figured, what the heck, lets try it...and surprisingly it worked! His chest and stomach started to feel better and less itchy/irritated. Thank goodness! It was about 2am by now, and I could barely keep my eyes open. I made sure he was feeling better and re-drenched the rag one more time, kissed him good night, and went to bed...only to be woken up four hours later to go to work for ten hours plus four hours of class. I think maybe leaving class a little early might be necessary...shh, don't tell!
All in all, I guess you can say I'm mommy-ready.
...but don't get any ideas...that's not happening for a looonnnggggg time!
