Skin cancers and conditions

Sun damaged skin

Sun-damaged skin includes pigmentation (freckles/"age spots"), wrinkles and prominent blood vessels. It is often loose and thin

Also known as

Photoageing, solar degeneration, poikiloderma, solar elastosis, skin ageing

Symptoms and signs

  • Changes in skin pigmentation and blood vessels: blotchy pigmentation, loss of pigmentation, prominent freckles ("age spots"), development of solar keratoses
  • Changes in skin consistency: wrinkles, loose and thin skin

Risk factors

  • Ultraviolet exposure: mainly long term, repeated sun exposure over many years
  • Increasing age
  • Smoking

Prognosis / outcome

Progression

With increasing age and sun exposure, changes in pigmentation, vessels and skin consistency will increase.

Procedures for

 

Sun damaged skin

Medications for

 

Sun damaged skin

Prevention of

 

Sun damaged skin

  • Avoid excessive ultraviolet exposure. For the best prevention of the signs of ageing, wear sunscreen every day, even when the ultraviolet index is low. Avoid smoking, eat a balanced diet containing fruit and vegetables daily.

More information

News / blog articles

IPL skin rejuvenation clinic Melbourne: facial and skin treatment
IPL skin rejuvenation clinic Melbourne: facial and skin treatment
04
Mar 2023

IPL (intense pulsed light) is a treatment for sun-damaged skin and other skin conditions. Spot Check Clinic uses IPL therapy for removal of freckles (“age spots”), facial redness and capillaries (“spider veins”), skin tightening, rosacea, hair removal, scar reduction and some skin cancers and pre-cancer lesions.

Photodynamic treatment now available
Photodynamic treatment now available
30
Jan 2023

Introducing photodynamic therapy for skin cancers and solar keratoses. Excellent cosmetic results without surgery or weeks of treatment.

Products available at Spot Check Clinic
Products available at Spot Check Clinic
01
Aug 2021

Sunscreen, moisturiser that repairs sun damage, advanced wound-healing gel, custom-compounded treatments and more.

Broadband light “rejuvenates” skin cells
Broadband light “rejuvenates” skin cells
26
Jul 2021

Intense pulsed light is a convenient and effective way of making the skin look younger to observers. Biopsies of treated skin have shown that the skin also resembles younger skin microscopically, and also expresses genes in a way similar to younger skin.

Recommended web links

Skin ageing
DermNet NZ

Discussion of the types of skin ageing and its causes and visible signs.

Date accessed:
 
26 Jul
 
2021

BBL Hero
Sciton Australia

Information about the BBL Hero broad band light system including before and after photos

Date accessed:
 
4 Jul
 
2021

Nicotinamide
DermNet NZ

Description of nicotinamide (vitamin B3) and its effects on the skin. Includes a discussion of mechanisms of action and use in skin cancer prevention, anti-ageing skin care, rosacea, acne and other dermatological conditions.

Date accessed:
 
9 May
 
2021

Pictures

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Sun damaged skin
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