Thank you for your comment. I have never used nail UV lights or a tanning bed but if you read the information from the article I cited they did this calculation
"Most home tanning beds have 12 to 28 bulbs producing 100 W per bulb, and salon beds have 24 to 60 bulbs producing 100
to 200Wper bulb. Most tanning beds can produce 1200 W of power or more, depending on the model. When correcting
for body surface area (100% body surface area while
using a tanning bed and 2% body surface area with a nail
lamp), the amount of UV radiation per meter squared is
approximately comparable, unless one is using a super tanning
bed with 60 lamps putting out 200 W per bulb."
I think what is important is not that we need to worry UV nail lights cause cancer but that it is an area of UV exposure we typically don't think of.
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Thank you for your comment. I have never used nail UV lights or a tanning bed but if you read the information from the article I cited they did this calculation
"Most home tanning beds have 12 to 28 bulbs producing 100 W per bulb, and salon beds have 24 to 60 bulbs producing 100
to 200Wper bulb. Most tanning beds can produce 1200 W of power or more, depending on the model. When correcting
for body surface area (100% body surface area while
using a tanning bed and 2% body surface area with a nail
lamp), the amount of UV radiation per meter squared is
approximately comparable, unless one is using a super tanning
bed with 60 lamps putting out 200 W per bulb."
I think what is important is not that we need to worry UV nail lights cause cancer but that it is an area of UV exposure we typically don't think of.
August 12, 2010 - 10:52amThis Comment
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