The fact that climate change influences health is an unmistakable reality that can even be felt in the health of what the Largest body of the body, the skin. According to the president of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV), Yolanda Gilaberte, This increase in temperatures, low humidity and pollution come with bad news for the health and good for the epidermis.
Incidence in the form of disorders such as atopic dermatitis and even skin cancer that can be exacerbated or can appear with it negative consequences of the climatic crisis That we live today.
According to this professional, there has been an increase in the incidence of cases of atopic dermatitis and car -immune diseases in recent years, in which it should undoubtedly influence on the environmental problemas well as foot cancerL, whose increase is many years and not for ».
Skin health, another victim of the effects of climate change
The president of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV), Yolanda Gilaberte, has warned about the impact that climate change has on skin health because the increase in temperatures, low humidity and pollution can Generate or aggravate skin conditions.
“The increase in temperatures can influence atopic dermatitis, influence diseases in which the increase in sweating is harmful and, of course, with skin cancer,” said the president of the A Efe in statements to EpheCademia, who celebrated its fifty second congress in Valencia this week, where it brought together more than 2,000 dermatologists.
As indicated, the Spanish Academy of Dermatology, through its sustainability program, has “much interest in investigating what the influence is on the short or long term of all these changes in skin diseases involved in climate change.”
For Gilaberte, the increase in temperature and low humidity can lead to changing vectors, bacteria, fungi and viruses that we have around and It can generate in the skin, our external barrier, infections that are not common in our environment.
In addition, climate change and pollution can negatively influence atopic dermatitis, because very sensitive skin is much more susceptible to these changes in the environment, as well as diseases in which the increase in sweating is harmful, such as, such as Hydentitis or hyperhidrosis.
Also in the ‘Psychedermatosis’, skin diseases related to psychological problems, and “of course” with skin cancer, because people will make more time outdoors and with less clothing, and with less clothing, and with less clothing, That means more sun exposure and more skin cancer ».
Increase in cases of skin conditions
According to Gilaberte, there has been an increase in the incidence of cases of atopic dermatitis and car -immune diseases, in which “the environmental problem must influence”, as well as skin cancer, “whose increase has been followed for many years and not for.”
«This increase in cases in Skin diseases influenced by climate change We are going to see it gradually, it will not be an abrupt increase, such as when a natural disaster occurs, such as Dana, where skin pathologies were seen that were related to floods, “he explained.
The president of the Spanish Academy has also warned of the consequences that the skin can have on the skin microplasty «To those who are exposed in cosmetics or food«.
Adjust itemoprotection for safe skin that has already been stored
“You have to try to raise and adjust the photo protection, because not everyone has the same risk or the same exhibitions,” ald Recommendations about the importance of skin hygiene, sun protection or early detection of possible skin problems.
As explained, people who work abroad permanently need very intense protection because their risk of skin cancer is high, but those who do it in an office and in a city with a lot of pollution need more a protector against the environmental pollution to which it is exposed.
«We are not going to encourage people to stay at home, which is the most protection of everything. Of course you have to leave, enjoy and exercise, but always with the right measures »of protection.
In the sense, he remembered that the Academy has the free UV-Derma mobile application, which wants to encourage the habits to promote the harmful effects of surplus exposure to the sun.
It is an information tool that offers tips for the prevention of skin cancer with real weather information about the levels of ultraviolet solar incident radiation in the city where the person is at his mobile.
The first thing that connects to is to see his phototype and to identify how his skin reacts to the sun, and the application provides the information of the Ultraviolet Radiation Index (UVI) in real time and the basic recommendations in photo protection. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM