‘Sunburning’ is the new dangerous trend making the rounds on the internet.
In particular, the “treatment” claims that deliberate exposure to the sun can improve the condition of the skin and reduce the symptoms of acne.
This practice is based on the idea that the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays can kill acne-causing bacteria and reduce inflammation in the skin.
In any case, however, although sun exposure may provide a temporary improvement in acne symptoms, the risks outweigh the benefits.
Warning to young acne sufferers not for any reason to apply a ‘treatment’ promoted as almost miraculous in TikTokdoctors from the British National Health System (NHS) address.
The “treatment” recommends not using sunscreen, but allowing the skin to be “baked” by the sun. The logic is that in this way the pimples will also be “baked” – just as our grandparents believed in the 1960s!
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Several influencers on the platform promote the “treatment” with videos of themselves sunbathing. The videos are accompanied by texts like “sun and salt water bake acne”.
In other words, these sun-soaked influencers are getting sunburned to get rid of acne. With the method they have chosen, however, they risk making it worse. What’s worse, is that they expose themselves (and anyone who believes them) to an increased risk of skin cancer.
“Fashions like this don’t just put health at immediate risk. They may also create long-term health problems,” said plastic surgeon Dr. Sam Orkar, director of Plastic Surgery & Burns at Queen Victoria Hospital in England.
According to the newsit, it is well documented that the more sunburns a person gets in his life, the more he is at risk of developing skin cancer. In addition, excessive exposure to sunlight prematurely ages the skin.
Studies have shown that a sunburn every two years triples the risk of melanoma, reports the Hellenic Dermatology & Venereology Society (EDAE). Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer.
Following the uproar over the trend, a TikTok spokesperson told the BBC that it had removed “a number” of videos because they breached its community rules.
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