What does PLE stand for?

Polymorphic Light Eruption

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Ling TC, Gibbs NK, Rhodes LE: Treatment of polymorphic light eruption.

Narrowband ultraviolet B treatment in skin diseases beyond vitiligo, ...

METHODS: 26 patients with polymorphic light eruption and two with solar urticaria were recruited to enter the study.

Photoprotective activity of oral polypodium leucotomos extract in 25 ...

He says many people mistake polymorphic light eruption - a reaction to the sun - for prickly heat "Significantly, though, PLE appears on sun-exposed skin, unlike prickly heat," he explains.

Style & Beauty: Don't let your holiday turn into sick leave!

Known as polymorphic light eruption (PLE), it produces an itchy, raised red rash hours after exposure.

Family Health

Long-term effects can make an existing illness worse, trigger rashes from the interaction of common medications and intense light, or even cause unusual diseases (like polymorphic light eruption, or PLE) as well as the photoaging and skin cancers that physicians would expect.

NEW STUDY OUTLINES SPECIAL HAZARDS OF INDOOR TANNING

Firstly find out if you have prickly heat, which occurs in creases where the sweat glands have blocked, or Polymorphic Light Eruption (PLE), a reaction to the sun's UVA rays which occurs in sun-exposed areas.

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