Careful, Laptops Can Provoke Skin Cancer!

Angga Firmanza
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Activities that do not recognize the time and place to make a lot of people need a laptop for work. If the location is not possible, not uncommon the people assume his laptop while working.

This habit was harmful to the skin because it can provoke'burning skin syndrome'. According to medical reports, as quoted from physorg, symptoms of 'burnt skin syndrome' is the spots are caused by unusual heat exposure in a long time.

One of the new cases that occurred recently happened to the boy of 12 years. The boy suffered a skin discoloration on his left thigh after playing computer games a few hours every day for several months.

The same result was experienced by a law student in Virginia, USA. It is to the point that confuses dr.Kimberley Salkey, physicians who treat this student until he learned that the student spends six hours a day working on a laptop in his thigh.

Such conditions can also occur if assuming something hot but not hot enough to burn skin. In general, this can cause the skin to become permanently dark. Even according Salkey, dermatologist assistant professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School, United States, said that when viewed through a microscope, 'burnt skin syndrome' resembling sunburn because of sunlight in the long term.

In some rare cases, 'burnt skin syndrome' can cause skin cancer, according to researchers from University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, Dr. Andrew Arnold and Peter Itin. They suggested to put an intermediary if you have to assume the laptop.

Not only that you should be aware of this syndrome. Though rarely exhibited his thigh, but for men 'burning skin syndrome' can reduce sperm production. Therefore, do not forget to warn your partner.

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