When I first read about this, I thought well, why did her parents allow her to go to a tanning bed in the first place, at the young and naive age of ten years old? But then I realized that there may not be the same rules of having attended tanning salons over in Britain as there are here. That is where this occurred by the way, in Britain.
I still had to wonder about the parental oversight here, but when I read the whole story, it was revealed that the young girl went to the salon, which was unmanned, out of curiosity and without her mother’s permission or knowledge, on her way walking home with a friend. At any rate, this is a terrible story of how tanning beds can really ruin the skin, especially if one overstays their welcome in them or is extremely fair to begin with.
Looking at the picture of the ten year old girl who was burnt after 16 minutes in a tanning bed, she is very fair, and should have never been in a tanning bed. Here in the US that would have never happened because you have to be of the age of consent, or at least have a parent sign a consent slip for you, to go tanning. All responsible tanning salons also will not let pale people go in over a certain amount of minutes, nor will they let you go in without goggles.
Apparently after her 16 minute stay in the tanning bed, her mother says she came home and said she was not feeling well. At that point her cheeks were just pink. She began to get progressively more red, and said she felt cold although she was hot to the touch. Her mother took her to the hospital immediately out of concern, where it was discovered that the young woman had burns on over 70% of her body. The medical staff were even horrified that this poor young woman suffered what she did, and there is now an outcry to man all tanning salons so this does not happen again.
The girl has been advised to not go into direct sunlight for at least the next ten years because of the damage and trauma done to her skin. This is exactly why I love my self tanners. If I could just go back and in time and take away all that tanning I did when I was younger and didn’t really understand the consequences to both my health and my skin’s appearance…..I guess there’s no use crying over spilled milk, it’s just from here forward that counts now.
