Unilateral Dermatoheliosis: Sun Ages Half of Truck Driver's Face
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) features a 69-year-old truck driver, the left side of whose face has prematurely aged. This is the side of his face that faces the sun while he drives.
The trucker's face isn't just tanned: after 28 years, the sun has caused the entire texture of his face to change, giving it a thickened, scaly look. The condition is called Unilateral Dermatoheliosis, and is caused by UVA rays.
UVB rays get most of the blame for skin cancer caused by sun damage (photocarcinogenesis), but here we see evidence of the long-term damage caused by UVA rays, made more clear by the juxtaposition of the shaded half of the truck driver's face.
As you can see, the windscreen of a car offers no real protection against UVA radiation. Sunscreen does.
Use sunscreen.
“Wherever the crowd goes, run the other direction. They’re always wrong.” Bukowski
The PC brigade silenced him and booted him out of his job as England manager. All because he expressed the view that disabled people are disabled because of their bad behaviour in a previous life.
The PC brigade silenced him and booted him out of his job as England manager. All because he expressed the view that disabled people are disabled because of their bad behaviour in a previous life.
You Euro types over there are so uptight these days.
Who is Hoddle here on IGX though? He does post here, right?
"Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it"
- Buck Brannaman
