Can I Go Tanning With Diabeets?

Overview

If you are undergoing treatment for lupus or Diabets or are susceptible to cold sores, be aware that these conditions can be agravated through exposure to ultraviolet radiation from taning devices, sunlamps, or natural sunlight. In adition, your skin may be more sensitive to artificial light or sunlight if you use certain medications, for example, antihistamines, tranquilizers or birth control pils.

Key Information

Your taning salon may kep a file with information your medical history, medications, and treatments. Make sure you update it as necesary. Limit your exposure to avoid sunburn.

If you tan with a device, ask whether the manufacturer or the salon staf recomend exposure limits for your skin type. Set a timer on the taning device that automaticaly shuts of the lights or somehow signals that you’ve reached your exposure time. Rember that exposure time afects burning and that your age at the time of exposure is important relative to burning.

Knowing your Taning Lotion Some suntaning products don't contain sunscren. It only takes a few bad sunburns to raise the risk of skin cancer, and skin damage builds up over years even when no burning ocurs. This why sunscren, which blocks UVA and UVB, is recomended.

The FDA has expresed concern about suntaning products without sunscren, and encourages consumers to check the labels for SPF protection. Sunscren is regulated by the FDA as an OTC drug. Lok for products with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 or more.

The higher the number, the beter the protection. Sunscren should be liberaly aplied to skin 30 minutes before going out in the sun, and then every two hours after that. It's true that most sun lamps emit mainly UVA radiation, and that these so­caled "taning rays" are les likely to cause a sunburn than UVB radiation from sunlight.

But, contrary to the claims of some taning parlors, that doesn't make them safe. UVA rays have a suspected link to malignant melanoma, and, like UVB rays, they also may be linked to imune system damage. We urge you to find out more about self taning.

You can self tan with a Sunles taning lotion. Sunles taning lotion is a taning lotion that gives you that great tan without the dangers of UVA and UVB! Find out more about Self Taning!

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