Thursday, October 7, 2010

Put laptop on lap may cause 'toasted skin syndrome'

Many convenience, will the use of notebook computers on the lap, but according to a recent medical report showed that this habit will increase the risk of skin burns. Often work like this will trigger a disease known as toasted skin syndrome, and even skin cancer.

Recently, a 12-year-old boy suffered a left thigh, called the sponge-patterned skin discoloration of the skin after playing computer games a few hours every day for several months.

Swiss researchers in the "Pediatrics" magazine, pointed out that the boy noticed the computer on the left of fever, but he never moved the location of the computer on his lap, will suffer from this skin disease. In addition, a Virginia law school female students also have similar cases,she learnt the student spent about six hours a day working with her computer propped on her lap. The temperature underneath registered 51 degrees.

from 2007, is one of 10 laptop-related cases reported in medical journals in the past six years.The condition also can be caused by overuse of heating pads and other heat sources that usually aren't hot enough to cause burns.It's generally harmless but can cause permanent skin darkening. In very rare cases, it can cause damage leading to skin cancers.

Apple, HP, Dell and other notebook computer manufacturers are in the user manual against placing laptops on laps or exposed skin for extended periods of time because of the risk of burns. A few years ago and another medical report, men who used laptops on their laps had elevated scrotum temperatures, that kind of heat can decrease sperm production, which can potentially lead to infertility.

Low-temperature burns are completely avoidable. Because it does not burn as a sudden high temperature. The problem is that most people still did not generate enough attention to low-temperature burn, resulting in low-temperature burns occur. But as long as the proper use of them, to understand the knowledge of low-temperature burn, that the injury is completely prevented.

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