Sun Safety Tips

When you are at the pool or the beach, always cover exposed areas of your body with tightly woven clothing and wear a wide brimmed hat to protect your head and face.

If you’re a parent, be sure to protect your children’s skin as research indicates that one or more severe, blistering sunburns in childhood or adolescence can double the risk of skin cancer later in life.

When applying sunscreen don’t forget the hard to reach area of the upper back, as too often this area is skipped during sunscreen application and what most people don’t realize is that its a common site for melanomas.
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The effects of UV exposure can lead to eye damage, immune system changes, wrinkles, cataracts, premature aging of the skin and skin cancer. Take a look at your own skin and compare the areas such as the front of your hands and your face, to areas that are almost never exposed to solar radiation.

The difference in your skin tone, the texture and wrinkles etc, all that you can see are most likely to be caused by exposure to the sun.

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer and approximately 90% of all skin cancers can be traced to UV exposure. Skin cancer most often occurs on the face and almost never on the buttocks, inner thighs or under the arms.
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Skin damage from sunlight builds up with continued exposure, whether sunburn occurs or not. In addition to skin cancer and sunburn, other effects of the sun exposure can include wrinkling, premature aging and in time, an almost leathery like appearance of the skin.

UVA, UVB and UVC are the three different types of rays that our sun produces:

A IS FOR AGEING:
UVA rays penetrate through to the dermis of the skin causing long term cell damage, visible for wrinkles, sagging and ageing.
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