A man from Texas got a got a horrible hole in his head because too long under the sun

News24xx.com - A recent study showed that the areas most vulnerable to sunburn are also the ones most often missed in sunscreen application. Even getting sunburned as little as once every two years can increase the chances of getting skin cancer.

A man, Cade Huckabay of Texas got a horrible hole in his head. He got the hole under his swollen skin in response to his severe sunburn.

Huckabay post his photo to Twitter on December 4 2017. His was most likely a first degree burn, although in rare cases sun exposure can cause second degree burns, affecting deeper tissue.  

Previously, he had had hair his entire life but before got a hole, Huckabay shaved his head for the first time in his life, then went straight outside to mow a lawn during the summer in Texas.

The resulting sun damage made his head swell. Even that small amount of pressure left a shockingly deep dent in his swollen head.

'At one point I could put a orange in my forehead for half an hour,' he wrote on Twitter.

Sun exposure can cause first degree burns and the kind of extreme swelling that made Huckabay's dent possible. Sunburn provokes an immune response from the body, which leads to the swelling Huckabay experienced.

As part of this immune response, the lymph node system delivers more white blood cells to the damaged body part in Huckabay's head.

Pain indicates to the body that there is a risk of infection somewhere, and lymphatic fluid that carries infection-fighting white blood cells goes rushing in.

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