Photosensitive reaction

Introduction: Photosensitive reaction

Description of Photosensitive reaction

Photosensitive reaction: Abnormal responses to sunlight or artificial light due to extreme reactivity of light-absorbing molecules in tissues. It refers almost exclusively to skin photosensitivity, including sunburn, reactions due to repeated prolonged exposure in the absence of photosensitizing factors, and reactions requiring photosensitizing factors such as photosensitizing agents and certain diseases. With restricted reference to skin tissue, it does not include photosensitivity of the eye to light, as in photophobia or photosensitive epilepsy.
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Photosensitive reaction: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Photosensitive reaction:

• Photosensitive
• Reaction
• Abnormal
• Abnormal pain (6 causes)
• Sunlight (31 causes)
• Light
• Reactivity
• Skin
• Skin symptoms (5992 causes)
• Skin disease

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Terms Similar to Photosensitive reaction:

• Photosensitivity of skin
• Photodermatitis

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External links related to: Photosensitive reaction

• Photosensitivity (sun allergy). DermNet NZ

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