Conhecimento da população sobre fotoproteção: uma revisão da literatura

Abstract

Human skin is the first physical barrier to protect the body, it also hás attachments that assist in this function. Even acting as an obstacle for most harmful agents, it still suffers from the action, for example from solar radiation. Excessive exposure to the sun, especially in a tropical country, such as in Brazil, has harmful effects on the skin, such as photoaging and even genetic mutations, which culminate in skin cancers. Concerned about this, the pharmaceutical industry continues to search for new formulations of photoprotectors, but these searches become irrelevant if the population does not have correct guidelines about photoeducation. The objective of the present study is to raise the knowledge about photoprotection from the point of view of the population from a bibliographic analysis, through the review of specialized literature of the last five years. In the middle of the 21st century, the population still withdraws to ask questions or simply does not think the use of photoprotectors is necessary. Many see themselves without conditions, but most act due to lack of information, even with the mode of use, issues such as reapplication or what SPF to choose are still unknown by the users. This work shows the difficulties that users have in relation to photoprotection and photoeducation and the means used to overcome these limitations, being essential the explanation of the correct way of use, reapplication, exposure time and better composition of the sunscreen according to its purpose, in addition to other photoprotection methods.