Are tanning beds safer than laying in the sun?!
Question: Every summer I get a burn working in the yard. The first few days I use sunscreen, but eventually I forget and I get burned. Wouldn't it be more healthy for me to go to a salon and get a nice, slow, non burn tan? I don't burn once I have a tan.
I have read studies that suggest the basis for individual skin cancer happens from sunburns received in childhood. I can't find them now though.
Answers: Every summer I get a burn working in the yard. The first few days I use sunscreen, but eventually I forget and I get burned. Wouldn't it be more healthy for me to go to a salon and get a nice, slow, non burn tan? I don't burn once I have a tan.
I have read studies that suggest the basis for individual skin cancer happens from sunburns received in childhood. I can't find them now though.
I believe in the old saying, "Everything in Moderation". If you use tanning beds in moderation, and only a few minutes at a time, there's nothing wrong with it. You'll have a nice golden glow eventually and if you bask on the beach in the summer it's a good way get started early. You need a certain amount of sun each day for your Vitamin D intake. Don't listen to the nay sayers about stuff being bad for you all the time. Start out tanning maybe a 1/2 hour at a time and work up from there. As soon as you feel a bit of pinching on the skin, get in the shade or put a shirt on.
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in Australia they are trying to ban the tan beds as very dangerous
NO!!!
I am good friends with a dermatologist and she always tells me if you want a tan the safest way to do it is a little bit at a time in the Sun.
The danger in tanning beds is that the lights/radiaton they use is a lot stronger than the sun. So It is like your skin is being exposed to a HIGHER dosage of sun than if you were just to be outside. In a tanning bed it only takes 8 minutes to get the damage of sun you would get in 2 hours of direct sunlight.
Also it is important to be exposed to direct sunlight for about 15 minutes because that is the way your body naturally produces Vitamin D through V-D synthesis through your skin.
So if you get burend easily try this:
Lay out in the Sun for 40 minutes a day, with 15 SPF sunsceen on of course, for about 4 days until you get a "base" tan which means your body already produced a certain amount of melanin. Then you can go out in the sun for longer periods of time (WITH at least 30 SPF SUNSCREEN ON OF COURSE) with a smaller risk of getting a burn.
You have to let the Melanin build in your skin over time, not in one day so that it can protect your skin. The Sun in small amounts is good for you and your skin is your natural defense to UV exposure so protect it. So be smart and wear sunscreen and don't go to tanning beds because going to a tanning bed is like PAYING FOR SKIN CANCER and after a few years your skin will get leathery and get ugly sunspots which will not go away.