Skin Care Tips for Summer Summers are back with a bang and temperatures are soaring up gradually. It’s the time for countless summer skin woes! The sudden change in weather from cool winters to hot summers can result in some problems within the duration of acclimatization to the changing weather, especially for kids and elderly people. From skin ailments like heat rashes, sunburns ,tanning, and dehydration; to serious health issues such as blemishes, pimples and pigmentation are bound to occur. Well, summer results in some wear and tear in every individual and is proved to be notorious in ruining the skin. However, with a one step forward approach, we can prevent many skin issues occurring in summer.
Common Ailments In summers, common skin problems include heat rashes, sunburns and skin tanning. The heat of the summer causes excessive sweating leading to skin irritation, prickly sensation and redness, especially on the back. Children are more prone to heat rashes. Due to excess sweat production the ducts get blocked and thus form blisters. Common areas affected include neck, upper chest, armpits, and groin. Lot of irritation is caused due to these prickly, itchy pimple-like blisters. Sunburn is caused by Ultraviolet rays present in sunlight. Exposure to UV rays will burn the upper layer of skin called epidermis and results in sunburns. Tanning is also the result of exposure to UV rays. But here the rays penetrates through the external skin to inner layers of the epidermis, where they stimulate the melanocytes which results in overproduction of pigmentation agent-melanin, ultimately leading to skin tan.