Toasted-Skin-Syndrome

Most of us have our own laptops that we spend too much of our time on. If you're sitting in bed you probably have the laptop on your lap and most of us know that laptops can get pretty hot but don’t think too much about it. Now evidence says that we really need to stop doing this or else we may get Toasted-Skin-Syndrome.

Recently in the November issue of Pediatrics, a couple of Swiss scientists came across a boy that had an odd web like pattern of discoloration all across his left thigh. After he thought about it, the boy realized that the left side of his laptop gets extremely hot when it's used. The web pattern is most likely caused by all the blood in the area slowing down. This is a fairly serious reaction that does not happen very often but some patients have even been known to get skin cancer after long heat exposures. Many males have also been known to become infertile because the extreme temperatures kill all the sperm. If this isn’t reason enough for all the guys out there to at least put a pillow or something in between them and their laptop then I don’t know what is.

Toasted-Skin-Syndrome is not a new or recent discovery, it has actually been happening for centuries. The difference is that the people who got it before were people who were exposed to extreme amounts of heat on a daily basis such as someone who worked with the furnaces of steam trains or other steam powered things.

For the most part I don't use a laptop but everything I mentioned above applies to electric blankets too! This is a problem because whenever I am doing my homework (which is a lot of my free time) I am under an electric blanket so this might be a problem for me!