The consequences of the climate crisis threaten the skin several times. “Higher temperatures, increasing UV taxes, poorer air quality and sometimes new pathogens,” said climate scientist Helga Kromp-Kolb. Skin cancer as a result of the UV rays is just one of the phenomena.
“Another aspect is that many specific skin diseases increase,” says Robert Müllegger, president of the Austrian Society for Dermatology and Venerology (ÖGDV). The symptoms in lupus of autoimmune diseases are deteriorated by heat and air pollutants can also damage the skin. “It cannot be emphasized enough: climate change also leads to a huge increase in UV tax. In addition to vitamin D, this only has a detrimental effects (…).” UV lets the skin age faster and accelerate blacks and the more usual white skin cancer.
In the meantime, more than half of the 70s have a provisional stage of white skin cancer, Müllegger said. Skin infections would also increase because sweating causes moisture and in turn is a breeding ground for bacteria.
Previously pollen season
According to a study published in “Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences” last year, UV radiation has unexpectedly increased in parts of Central Europe in recent decades. An episode is the early start of spring and therefore also an earlier pollen season, said Kromp-Kolb. A pollen allergy can lead to one of the so -driven atopic diseases, including the widespread neurodermatitis.
Environment doctor Hans-Peter Hutter reminded that people’s behavior also plays a role in skin diseases and heated nuts. He mentioned a tennis game at 35 degrees Celsius as an example of both.
Source: Krone
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