People with acne should enhance this care. SkinErrors gives you guidelines to care for you and yours.
Know and care for our skin and our children.
Summer is synonymous with sun, but what we know about the sun? The sun is the closest star to us. It is essential for life, for growth of plants, animals and men, but its radiation can have a harmful effect on the body, especially in the skin.
The Earth receives only a small part of this radiation as different layers of the atmosphere stops most harmful radiation to humans. The ozone layer is located at 25km altitude in the stratosphere, is an essential ecological barrier for the Earth, absorbing very efficiently gamma rays, X rays and UVC.
The energy that reaches the earth consists of:
* Infrared rays, responsible for the sensation of heat.
* Visible light is composed of seven colors of the rainbow (violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red).
* Ultraviolet (UVA and UVB), invisible to the human eye and higher energy than visible light.
Each of these components of energy is also responsible for adverse effects such as dehydration or heat stroke (infrared rays), skin aging (visible light), skin cancers (UV) or sunburn (UVB rays).
To protect our skin, we must know our skin type, since we are all equal before the sun. Everything depends on your skin type, which is defined by skin color, hair color, sunburn tendency and ability to tan. These features are genetically programmed.
But we must also take into account the conditions of sun exposure. In addition, sometimes the skin may have a heightened sensitivity to the sun regardless of skin type, because it has suffered repeated attacks (weather, cosmetics, and drugs) or because they react to stimuli that would not react normal skin (allergy) and may even become intolerant to the sun.
Contrary to what one might think, misses a cloudy sky UVA and UVB rays. Only stops the infrared, so do not feel warm feeling but we can burn. Also, we often forget that the visible light and ultraviolet rays from the sun can reach human skin also indirectly, by reflecting on various surfaces: about 20% water, about 10% grass in the snow for 85 % sand and 15 to 25%.
So it will be convenient to follow a series of key recommendations from the sun and especially in children advises Dr. Miguel Gonzalez Nebreda, general dermatologist and skin cancer prevention.
Skin care of the child:
* Do not expose to the sun for a child less than 3 years.
* No sun exposure between 12 am and 16h.
* Remember to protect the child t-shirt, hat and sunglasses, plus sun protection.
* Use appropriate protection to the skin type of children: resistant to water, sand and a high tolerance.
* Apply the solar product 30 minutes before going outside.
* Re-apply sunscreen every 2 hours and after swimming.
* Insist on all the back, face, nose, ears and neck.
* Protect your child into all activities in the sun.
* It is necessary to drink water regularly, because the solar radiation dehydrates the body.
Skin care adult acne especially if you have:
* Acne is a condition that usually occurs in adolescents, young adults and a small percentage of people over 30 years. Sometimes, the aesthetic effects are important, since the lesions appear mainly on face, chest and back affecting the adolescent self-esteem at a critical point of development that is taking hold their personality, and can be accompanied by psychological effects as they feel that its image is distorted.
* Acne is a curable disease and the patient should see a dermatologist before the onset of sequelae, if possible.
* A good doctor-patient relationship is therefore critical to ensure appropriate handling, being essential to gain the confidence of the patient, in addition to offering medical and psychological support.
* It should be explained in detail to the patient the nature of your acne, tell him it’s a resolute autoimmune disease that may require treatment to a greater or lesser extent for several years.
* It is very important to a proper clinical trial to determine the causes of the process, going after the application of appropriate treatment in each case.
* Facial hygiene is very important, but not abuse, just morning and night, and otherwise unprotected skin and can cause a rebound effect with a consequent increase of sebum while dehydration of the skin.
* Prohibit manipulation of the lesions to avoid possible scarring.
* We must use appropriate cosmetic skin such increased seborrhea usually using oil free products or free of fat both moisturizing, protective, shaving lotions or cosmetics, otherwise worsen acne.
* Currently there are many oil-free products on the market that can be applied without prejudice.
* Avoid contact of the hair on the forehead and cheeks, or any type of occlusion of the affected areas because we could make acne worse.
