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The weather is getting warmer, the sun exposure is getting stronger and stronger, and doing a good job of sunscreen has become a necessary work 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 few days ago, a young patient from the emergency department of Changsha Third Hospital came to the hospital with breathing difficulties and cough. Multidimensional CT scan revealed that the patient's lungs showed large symmetrical white ground-glass opacities, commonly known as white lung. The patient reported that he used sunscreen spray before going out because of the weather, and sprayed it on his face. He didn't hold his breath at the time, and then the cough continued for a day, and after about nine hours, he was already feeling 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 skin allergies, if the inhalation amount is not very large, the allergic reaction is not very serious, and it can be eliminated quickly.
According to the doctor, the atomized tiny particles in the sunscreen spray float around the user, even if you hold your breath while spraying, the suspended particles filled with the environment will not settle and dissipate quickly in a short period of time, and may still be inhaled without the user knowing.
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。
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 place. 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.
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Editor: Angel