Laptop users warned of skin damage dangers
People who work with a laptop on their knees can develop "toasted skin syndrome" an unusual-looking mottled skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure, a report said today.
In one recent case, a 12-year-old boy developed a sponge-patterned skin discolouration on his left thigh after playing computer games for a few hours every day for several months.
“He recognised that the laptop got hot on the left side; however, regardless of that, he did not change its position,” Swiss researchers said in an article published today in the US journal Paediatrics.
That case is one of 10 laptop-related cases reported in medical journals in the past six years.