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Does Sun Damage Cause All Age Spots?
Are all age spots caused from sun damage or do they just show up as a natural part of aging skin?
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Causes of sun spots and age spots. How to treat age spots.
Sun damage, hormonal influences, and chronic inflammation can cause age spots. I treat age spots with Melaquin AM and Melaquin PM skin lighteners in my practice.
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Sun Damage and Age Spots
Yes. Excessive exposure to the sun is the direct cause of age spots. However genetics may also predispose some individuals to developing age spots more readily than others.
Melanin is the pigment that gives the skin its color. UV light from the sun causes more melanin to be produced, resulting in tanning for many individuals. High exposure to UV rays over time causes damage to the skin cells. So instead of melanin being produced in an evenly distributed fashion, it clumps together in...
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Does Sun Damage Cause all Age Spots?
The short answer to your question is yes. If you were never to have any sun exposure, you would likely not get age spots - that is if we are talking about solar lentigines, the scientific definition of age spots.
To avoid getting more sun spots in the future, consider wearing hats or long sleeve shirts when spending lots of time outside and for permanent removal of the spots consider finding a local practitioner who uses q-switched laser treatments.
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The lay term for a solar lentigo is an age spot. As the name solar strongly implies these brown spots are due to the sun.
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Lentigenes "Age Spots"
Lentigenes aka "Browns' or "Age Spots" are seen in aging skin but are especially associated with UV ray exposure (Sun, tanning booths). Since the vast majority of us have and are spending our times in the sun we have a much higher rate of such concentrations of melanin pigment than had we spent our lives indoors.
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