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How the heat from a laptop can 'toast' the skin on your thighs

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  • ‘Toasted’ boy used laptop for a few hours a day 
  • Damage can lead to skin cancers in some cases
  • Temperature underneath computer can hit 52C

Balancing your laptop on your knees could cause permanent discolouration of the skin and, in rare cases, cancer, doctors have warned.

The heat generated by the computers can cause a nettle sting-like rash – a condition named ‘toasted skin syndrome’.

Common in the days before central heating, when people huddled around fires and electric heaters to stay warm, it is making a comeback in the laptop generation.

Warning: A 12-year-old boy shows off the ‘toasted skin’ on his leg after using a laptop for several hours a day

In one recent case, a 12-year-old boy developed a sponge-patterned skin discolouration on his left thigh after playing computer games for a few hours every day for several months.

‘He recognised that the laptop got hot on the left side, however, regardless of that, he did not change its position,’ Swiss researchers wrote in the medical-journal Pediatrics.

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1317532/Laptop-heat-toast-skin-thighs.html#ixzz11U5UeNXm



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