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Answer to Question #2411 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"Category: Radiation Effects — Effects on Tissues and Organs The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field: Q
What are the radiation effects on the skin? I heard that radiation dissolves the skin and exposed organs.
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Rather large doses of radiation are required to produce skin injury. Such injury usually begins as redness, rather like sunburn. If the dose is large enough, the redness may progress to a dry, scaly, itching rash. Still-larger doses can produce areas of ulceration, leaving a red, weeping area, rather like a blister that has burst. Unless the dose is extremely large, all of these injuries will recover, but may leave weakened skin.
All of these effects require radiation doses far greater than anyone is likely to encounter in normal living, such as from environmental radiation or medical x ray. S. Julian Gibbs, DDS, PhD
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