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GLOSSARY : Children's skin and the sun

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Photosensitisation

Photosensitisation, which is an increase in the skin's sensitivity to UV radiation, is often due to a chemical substance or medicinal product. It appears as a rash. Photosensitisation may have no known cause, be induced by an external (perfume) or internal (medicine) trigger or be of genetic origin.

This word also belongs to the categories For sensitive or sun allergy-prone skin, Sun for everyone.

Phototype

Photodermatitis

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