A guest blog from the Health Promotion Agency.

Here’s a new year’s resolution – get into the habit of regularly self-checking your own skin for different looking moles or freckles.  Early detection can increase your chance of successful treatment.  

 This guest blog was produced by Cancer Society NZ.

Sunburn now could lead to melanoma skin cancer later in life – no matter what your age or skin type.  This is a lesson learnt too late and it can be started early by educating children to become Sunsmart savvy.

Written by Wayde Beckman from the Health Sponsorship Council.
February 2011

 “I got windburnt today.”  “My lips feel windburnt.”  It’s something we hear from time to time (and even say ourselves) to explain red, sore, dry skin or lips after being outside.  And in this glorious country of ours, it’s hard to be outside and not feel the sweet caress (or fierce pummeling) of the wind.  But what is windburn?  And can the wind really burn our skin?