Skin fragility and sunbeds.

Restricting the use of sunbeds to prevent skin cancer

Young people - especially women - are risking their health in pursuit of a tanned skin that they associate with celebrity, beauty and wellbeing. Tatum Anderson reports.

UV-induced skin changes due to regular use of commercial sunbeds.

BACKGROUND/AIM Increased pigmentation and thickening of the epidermis are the most important photoprotective skin reactions induced by ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The present study was designed to find out what changes are induced by regular use of commercial sunbeds twice weekly over a period of 6 weeks. METHODS The parameters analysed were skin pigmentation measured by chromametry, minimal ...

[Sunbeds, skin cancer, international standards, and the social role of dermatologists].

Fragility of epidermis: acne and post-procedure lesional skin.

'Fragile skin', or skin with lower resistance to aggressors, can be broadly classified into four causal categories: constitutional (age-dependent or associated with specific vulnerable locations on the body, e.g. eyelids), pathological (related to disease), circumstantial (related to environmental or internal factors, e.g. stress) and iatrogenic (caused by medical interventions or treatments). ...

Sunbeds as vitamin D sources.

The objectives of this work were: (1) To determine whether repeated exposures to small doses from a commercial sun bed (Wolff Solarium Super Plus 100 W) over 5 weeks gave less vitamin D than repeated exposures to twice as large, but still nonerythemogenic, doses. (2) To investigate whether the contribution to the vitamin D status from such sessions of exposures was dependent on the baseline sta...