Major skin damage and skin reactions can be caused from using tanning beds. The ultraviolet light that is used to cause more melanin in a person’s skin to make it darker may seem harmless; but the truth is that it can cause damaged skin cells that may not be able to be repaired.

This will also result in a person being in danger of getting skin cancer. Most skin cancers happen because people are exposed to too much of some sort of light, or sun light. Not only can this UV light result in cancer, but some other types of damage can be done to your skin as well, such as wrinkles on your skin that will make you appear older than your age.

The older type tanning beds used UVA lights to tan skin, which is what was found out to be causing cancer later on down the road. There are also some damages that can be done to your eyes and vision as well. A person can get cataracts, which is a white film that grows over the cornea of your eye, and inflammation of the eyes can occur as well. Your immune system can become suppressed after being under UV lights too much, and can cause more than just cancer, but other diseases as well. Whether you believe it or not, sexually transmitted diseases can be caused from tanning beds as well if they are not properly cleaned and disinfected by the staff of the tanning salon. After constant use and build up of different germs, it can be likely that you can get something unexpected.

There has been a report of at least 1,000 deaths for the year 2009 in the USA alone, as a result of people overusing tanning beds. People with lighter toned skin which is known as skin type I, are more than likely more prone to using tanning beds than people that have skin tone type IV. Skin type I is more delicate than skin type IV, and because of this, people with the lightest skin try to tan but often get burned instead, and because their skin is not used to the amount of melanin that is generated by tanning beds, more harm than good can be done to their body.

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