As the weather warms up and the sun shines more and more, doing a good job of sun protection has become a necessary job for many people before going out. However, in the investigation, the reporter found that if the sunscreen spray is used improperly, it may bring some safety hazards to consumers.
A patient inhaled sunscreen spray caused acute hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Not long ago, a young patient came to the emergency department of Changsha Third Hospital, who came to the hospital with breathing difficulties and cough. Multidimensional CT examination revealed that the patient's lungs showed large symmetrical white ground-glass opacities, which are commonly known as white lung. The patient himself reported that he used sunscreen spray on his face before going out because of the weather, and did not hold his breath at the time, and then the cough lasted for a day, and after about nine hours, he already felt very difficult to breathe. The doctor said that it was almost certain that the lungs had an allergic reaction after inhaling the sunscreen spray, which caused pulmonary edema lesions, which led to acute hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
Fan Du, Deputy Chief Physician of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Changsha Third Hospital: Acute functional pneumonia is like our skin allergies, which may be itchy and painful when there is a lump of wind, but after a period of time it will disappear, so the allergies in the lungs are the same, but if the inhalation amount is not very large and the allergic reaction is not very serious, it will disappear quickly.
Holding your breath also doesn't prevent aerosols from being inhaled into your lungs
According to the doctor, the atomized tiny particles in the sunscreen spray float around the user, even if they hold their breath when spraying, the suspended particles filled with the environment will not settle and dissipate quickly in a short period of time, and they may still be inhaled without the user knowing.
Long-term improper use of sunscreen spray can lead to lung damage
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is divided into three course states: acute, subacute, and chronic. If in a summer or longer period, it seems that you hold your breath when you use sunscreen spray on your face every day, but the particles in the environment that cannot be dissipated immediately are inhaled without knowing it, it is a long-term chronic contact history, and the damage to the lungs belongs to the subacute course state, if this process exceeds half a year, it can be determined as a chronic course state, and there may be no cough or uncomfortable symptoms in this process, so there is no early warning, and it is difficult to attract the attention of patients, which will cause irreversible damage to the lungs。
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Doctors recommend that sunscreen spray should not be sprayed on the face as much as possible, and if it must be used, it is best to use it in a ventilated area. In addition, because the propellant of some sunscreen sprays contains flammable ingredients such as methane, propane, and isobutane, it is very likely to catch fire when encountering an open flame when using it, so when using sunscreen spray, you should also pay attention to whether there is a fire source around you.
Source: CCTV news client