What happens if you use a sun bed for to long?
Sunbeds are classified as carcinogenic to humans, the highest cancer classification, and can cause severe health problems, including:
- Skin cancer
- Premature aging of the skin
- Eye damage
- Immune system suppression
- Increased risk of cataracts
- Increased risk of macular degeneration
- Impaired skin elasticity
- Dry, rough, leathery skin
- Pigmentation changes
- Telangiectasias (tiny, red blood vessels that appear on the surface of the skin)
- Actinic keratoses (rough, scaly patches of skin that can develop into skin cancer)
- Solar elastosis (yellowish thickening of the skin caused by sun damage)
- Squamous cell carcinoma (a type of skin cancer that develops in the top layer of the skin)
- Basal cell carcinoma (a type of skin cancer that develops in the basal cells of the skin)
- Malignant melanoma (the most serious type of skin cancer)
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