In the quiet routines of home schooling, a new kind of harm has emerged — not from screens, but from the warmth they generate. A pre-teen boy in the United Kingdom developed erythema ab igne, or toasted skin syndrome, after resting his charging laptop on his bare stomach for up to eight hours a day, a case that required two emergency visits and unnecessary testing before the true cause was found. As children spend more hours with devices that emit steady, modest heat, medicine is being asked to recognize a condition it has long associated with adults and older remedies. The lesson is less abou
Laptop heat causing 'toasted skin syndrome' in children, doctors warn
A pre-teen boy developed a painful, peeling rash requiring emergency department visits and unnecessary diagnostic tests before proper diagnosis.