Notebooks cause of skin damage?

Notebooks cause of skin damage?

(05.10.2010) Skin damage caused by notebooks? Researchers from the University of Basel have shown that the laptop is on the lap „Toasted Skin syndrome may be on the thighs (roasted skin), because the devices heat up to 50 degrees Celsius on their underside, and in men, the quality of the sperm also suffers from the heat.

Sponge-like changes in the skin due to heat
Andreas W. Arnold and Peter H. Itin from the Department of Dermatology at the University of Basel have addressed the phenomenon of „Toasted skin“-Syndrome closer and their results now in the journal „Pediatrics“ released. So they could find that the heat of the notebooks caused by too long contact a tissue change, which may be similar to a slight burn with redness and swelling. For example, a 12-year-old boy had formed a sponge-like skin structure on his thighs after daily computer games lasting several hours with a laptop on his lap. A law student suffered due to the regular contact with the too hot notebook under a permanent skin discoloration on the thighs. The notebook on the lap or the regular contact with the underside of the device, according to the experts, however, not only lead to unwanted skin lesions, but is also very rare cause of skin cancer. The manufacturers are not without reason to warn against working with the laptop in their lap and the contact with the hot underside of their devices. The physicians also recommend notebooks not to use directly on the lap, but instead to fall back on suitable documents. A long pair of pants is not enough for protection.

Several hours of contact for months leads to changes in the skin
A total of ten cases of „Toasted skin“-Syndrome (among professionals too „Erythema ab igne“ named) describe the two scientists from the University of Basel in the journal „Pediatrics“. In all of the cases described, daily contact with the underside of the device for several months had taken place for several months. Although patients often noticed that the laptop produced considerable heat in their laps, they changed their position too seldom and did not expect the consequences for the skin. „He noticed that the laptop on the left side was getting hot. Nevertheless, he did not change his position“, For example, the doctors commented on the development of the disease in the 12-year-old boy.

Hot laptops bad for sperm
The „Toasted skin“ - Syndrome is usually no special health restriction for the patients, however permanent skin discolouration can occur, which does not regress even after years. Men, in particular, should not underestimate the risk of having a laptop on their lap. For the male sperm are heat deadly and so the quality of the sperm sometimes suffers considerably from the radiated heat from the notebooks. (Fp)

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