Why do you feel more tired when sunburnt?
In: Biology
The Sun emits a ton of light particles. Each particle has a different amount of energy, some having enough energy to hurt your cells causing sunburn. The one’s that cause Sunburn fall under UV (ultraviolet).
When your skin cells absorb this UV light, it breaks apart the structures of these cells. Your body needs to remove this damage and get rid of them. Like any damage your body processes, your skin undergoes inflammation from your damage by the repair cells coming to clean up.
When you have a sunburn, you have millions of these tiny damages invoking a very large immune response causing massive amount of inflammation and raising your body temperature. This amount of work is tremendous and makes you tired. Also, the clean up chemicals the cells make to repair/protect you also make you tired and not feel well.
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