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"She would want other girls to know that the ’glow’ she got from tanning beds, which she thought was so attractive as a teenager, caused her years of pain, from having large disfiguring scars and losing her hair to needing an oxygen tank to breathe." The best advice is to learn to love the skin you’re in so that you don’t have to change it with sun or tanning beds. "Jaime wanted a ’killer’ tan, and that’s exactly what she got," says her mother, Donna. At 20, Jaime was diagnosed with melanoma, which she battled for nine years before passing away. Jaime Regen Rea, from Texas, a frequent sunbed user, spent her school lunch hour secretly tanning at a local salon. It’s a message that Meghan, now fully recovered, spreads by volunteering with the Melanoma Foundation of New England and the American Academy of Dermatology. Only 15 of respondents in a survey in 2007 reported ever talking to a doctor about indoor tanning, although physicians, especially dermatologists, were considered the most trusted information source 15. "There’s no way to reverse the damage that’s been done, but quitting immediately is the only way to minimize health risks," Cokkinides says. Given mounting evidence of the risks of tanning bed use, education of the general public, in particular by physicians, is critical. The good news is the cumulative harm from tanning will diminish over time. Will tanning in a standup tanning bed harm the unborn baby No-tanning in a stand up bed is actually less harmful to a baby when you compare it to tanning in a lay down bed. "But most reasonable diets already provide teens with enough vitamin D, and deficient teens-determined by a simple test from your doctor-can usually be treated with a multivitamin," she adds. Despite the fact that 30 states in America have restrictions on the use of commercial tanning beds by those 18 and younger, Idaho recently joined 17 states that do not restrict tanning bed use. "The tanning salon industry falsely states that use of a tanning bed is a safe way to get vitamin D," says Vilma Cokkinides, Ph.D., a director of risk research at the American Cancer Society. If teens and tanning booths are such a toxic mix, why do 2 million teens nationwide use these machines annually? It’s partly because businesses aggressively advertise the supposed benefits of sunbeds.
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