A large number of people suffer from sun allergy and the symptoms, in majority of the occurrences, affect the skin of the suffering individual.

People generally suffer from Sun allergy symptoms when their body’s immune system unexpectedly reacts in a negative way to sunlight. The sun allergy symptoms are more common during springtime. The symptoms generally surface within minutes to a few hours after the exposure to sun rays.

Sun allergy can affect people from different gender, race and age but it is seen that the symptoms are most dominant in people of 20 t0 35 years age group. Again, babies and young children are also very vulnerable to sun allergies. Moreover, it is also found that sun allergy mostly dominates in the areas where there are basically four seasons.

The symptoms can vary from person to person and place to Place. The severity of the symptoms also depends on the individual body’s ability to fight and defeat the allergens. In most cases it is seen that the sun allergy symptoms do not lead to any serious and long suffering problem. In a majority of cases the symptoms are limited to itching or redness of skin in a particular portion of the body which has been exposed to sun rays directly. Symptoms come and vanish automatically within week.

However, there are exceptions also. In some people who are very sensitive to sunlight sun allergy symptoms can take the form of severe itchy hives that can blister and even spread to different parts of the body and even to those areas also which were not directly exposed to sunlight. This kind of symptoms are extremely painful to deal with and cause great uneasiness. In a few case a person may suffer from sun stroke also.