What happens if you use a sun bed for to long?

Sunbeds are classified as carcinogenic to humans, the highest cancer classification, and can cause severe health problems, including:

- Skin cancer

- Premature aging of the skin

- Eye damage

- Immune system suppression

- Increased risk of cataracts

- Increased risk of macular degeneration

- Impaired skin elasticity

- Dry, rough, leathery skin

- Pigmentation changes

- Telangiectasias (tiny, red blood vessels that appear on the surface of the skin)

- Actinic keratoses (rough, scaly patches of skin that can develop into skin cancer)

- Solar elastosis (yellowish thickening of the skin caused by sun damage)

- Squamous cell carcinoma (a type of skin cancer that develops in the top layer of the skin)

- Basal cell carcinoma (a type of skin cancer that develops in the basal cells of the skin)

- Malignant melanoma (the most serious type of skin cancer)