I need answers about premature skin aging ! Posted: 08-14-07 02:28am
I am desperately looking for answers about
premature skin aging. I'm wondering, with
the accumulated sun exposer I've already
had, how badly premature aging will affect
me in my later years.
up till middle school I often played
outside without sunprotection. I maybe got
2 hours of sun exposer a day but with an
added amount of time when my family would
go hiking, which was once every couple of
weeks.starting high school is when I
started wear a high spf sunscreen (50 or
more with zinc) and I highly limited my
time outdoors. I'm 18 and am continue my
strict sun protection.
The only sun damage I have is very light
freckles on my shoulders. I am fair
skinned but naturally darker than scottish
or irish heritage. So my overall question
is if I really started protecting myself
from the sun (to the extreme) starting in
the 9th grade and beyond, how badly could
I possibly be hit with premature skin
aging later on?how many years would it
take for all those years of sun exposer to
show up? Just estimates and personal
opinion.
I'm basically freaked out after seeing a
50 year old that looked like she was 80. I
wear spf 70 by neautrogena now and even
use an embrella! I live in AZ btw. I'm
hoping for the bad againg to start when
I'm 30 or preferably older,think I can
achieve that with how things are going
now?
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MandMs
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Posted: 09-06-07 09:17am
Our normal skin aging process can be
accelerated by some external factors,
among which, sun exposure ages our skin
the most. It takes few minutes sun
exposure everyday for couple of years to
have visible skin changes.
For people who live in areas with
intensive sun rays, skin changes can be
noticeable in their 20's. Also, they're at
higher risk to develop skin
cancer.Freckles, age spots, rough and
leathery skin, fine wrinkles, reddish
patches of skin, loose skin are lesions
connected with unprotected sun exposure
for years.
I don't think you'll experience intensive
premature skin aging due to your sun
protection. If you're a smoker, quit
smoking and take some anti
radicals(vitamin E ).
