What can happen to your eyes in a tanning bed if you don't use goggles?
I’m not trying to be stupid, but what’s the difference between closing your eyes and wearing the goggles? Is it because the eyelid skin is thinner and more sensitive?
And please, save the lectures on tanning for somebody else.
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Studies show that too much exposure to ultraviolet rays, including UVA rays, can damage the retina. Overexposure can burn the cornea, and repeated exposure over many years can change the structure of the lens so that it begins to cloud, forming a cataract. Left untreated, cataracts can cause blindness.
The Food and Drug Administration requires tanning salons to direct all customers to wear protective eye goggles. Closing your eyes, wearing ordinary sunglasses, and using cotton wads do not protect the cornea from the intensity of UV radiation in tanning devices.
Long-term exposure to natural sunlight also can result in eye damage, but in the sun, people generally are more aware that their eyelids are burning. Under indoor UV lights, exposed skin remains cool to the touch. In addition, the intensity of lights used in tanning devices is much greater — and potentially more damaging to the eyes — than the intensity of UV rays in natural sunlight.
If you don’t wear the goggles, the UV rays from the fluorescent lights can blind you. Just closing your eyes will not keep them out.
They burn. And your assumption is correct.
FRY
Ya and u could be blind.
Im not sure the difference but have u ever noticed that when u close ur eyes when u get out everything is blurry? i close my eyes cuz i dont want goggle lines….i think the small lenses are thicker and are protective…..
your eyes get really tanned…haha lol jk. um…I’ll spare the lecture I’m sure you know about tanning bed flukes and overtanning and skin cancer and all that. I think the tanning bed light it similar to the sun (obviously the sun’s more powerful) and its just as bad to look at that as to the sun. ask your doctor, too. or optomotrist.
yes it’s really bad for your eyes to not wear the goggles. I usually just close my eyes because I don’t want to have the racoon eyes tan…the light can travel through your lids and harm your retina’s so it’s better to wear the goggles
You get a headache
it can cause major damage to the lens in your eyes and can even cause you to go blind.
The intensity of the light in these beds can cause serious damage to your retinas. Those goggles you wear give you the protection you need. Just closing your eyes and thinking your eyelids will block those harmful rays doesn’t cut it.
I imagine it can cause alot of damage to your eyes, your eyes are very sensitive, we wear sunglasses to protect our eyes from the sun, so can you see the damage being directly under a tanning bed might cause.
theyll explode!
the UV light in the tanning light hurts the cells of the cornea and can cause you a burning sensation in your eyes
shutting the eyes will help a lot but you may forget or open them for any surprise that’s why you wear the goggles
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i think it kills the cornea.
hmmm.. ive been tanning off & on for 6 years and i never have worn goggles & my visions still ok!!
you’ll eventually go blind
well, they say that wearing the goggles helps protect your eyes and if you dont wear them you could have eye damage from it. but, i do not like to wear them [goggles] because it just looks stupid when your face as tan but your eyes and around your eyes is white, which makes it more obvious that you have tanned. you are not required to wear goggles in the tanning booth, but it is recommended just for safety issues. i would just like to point out that i havent been tanning in over a year because i just dont like tanning because it’s just really uncomfortable and hot…and i’m fine being white (not ghost white but not tan). and i think that once you have a nice tan you should not continue tanning for the fact that you look so fake and not right. i know a few girls who tan almost every day or every other day and they look fake…and their tan matches the color of their hair….so limit how much you tan if you want to look natural. but of you can do "checkups" like every two weeks or so, and also once you start losing the tan you can go tanning again, but not too much only to get back your "natural looking" tan.
I don’t understand why girls for the sake of vanity won’t wear the goggles. You have to have your eyes the rest of your life. I don’t know about everyone else but i’m not into going blind. No, you can’t see the UV rays going into your eyes but that doesn’t mean that they arn’t there and that you can’t go blind from them.
it keeps the uv light away. you can burn your retna and eventually go blind. Don’t try it! I tan all the time and didn’t like the white circles it left behind but "winkies" are cheap and don’t leave the white circles
Are you a retarded? Please,do us all a favor and don’t wear the goggles. You can be the first blind person with skin cancer.
you will loose your sense of color vision, i.e., colors that you see will not look as vivid, besides other dangerous eye problems as well
You can get eye damage with out the goggles. Just closing your eyes does not give enough protection to the cornea and retina. If you tan alot it could eventually cause blindness.
just wear the stupid goggles why take a chance on it????