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Doctors are people to use suntan lotion correctly or serious burns or skin damage. The warning comes as much of the northern hemisphere in record-breaking and deadly heatwaves. Japan has its heatwave a natural disaster as at least 80 people have from heat-related conditions. The doctors say people are less than half the protection from the sun than they think. Their advice to use lotion with the highest sun protection factor (SPF) possible. Many people wrongly SPF 15 is sufficient to the sun's harmful UV rays. However, researchers say people to use SPF 30 or 50 to make sure they are protected.

The doctors another problem to our use of suntan lotion - we do not enough of it. Apparently, we are on how much lotion we to our skin. Professor Anthony Young said most people apply lotion too thinly and often do not it on areas of the skin that are at risk. He said most people only get 40 per cent of the expected protection from SPF 50 lotion because they are it too thinly. People need to at least six teaspoons (36g) to their body. Doctors say we need to use more than half a teaspoon to cover the face, neck and ears. They warned us not to forget to put lotion on our ears, which we often and are particularly prone to burning.