Photosensitivity Topics

• systemic lupus erythematosus
• tetracycline antibiotics
• xeroderma pigmentosum
• types of skin cancer
• excessive sunlight
• sunlight exposure
• ripe seed
• dna repair
• heart drugs
• hereditary condition
• skin symptoms
• light sensitivity
• skin cancer
• amiodarone
• porphyria
• buckwheat
• tetracycline
• lupus
• consumption

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Particular medications make the skin more sensitive to sunlight; these include most of the tetracycline antibiotics, heart drugs amiodarone, and sulfonamides. Particular conditions lead to increased light sensitivity. Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus experience skin symptoms after sunlight exposure; some types of porphyria are aggravated by sunlight. All types of skin cancer are linked to excessive sunlight exposure, and the rare hereditary condition xeroderma pigmentosum (a defect in DNA repair) accelerates this risk manifold. Consumption of green or dried buckwheat plants results in severe photosensitivity in horses. The ripe seed has no effect.

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