Treatment options for
Sun Damage
from least to most invasiveWhether you have sun damage from occupational-related sun exposure, years of playing outdoor sports, or from time spent teaching your sons and daughters how to ride bikes, hit free throw shots or make that perfect dive into the pool, there are preventive skin care products and skin care treatments that can help prevent and reduce the adverse effect the sun has on your skin. UVA and UVB rays from the sun are both harmful and dangerous.
Sun exposure harms the skin and causes premature aging leading to age spots, thinning of the skin and fine wrinkles, dry, dull skin and a red mottled appearance to the skin. The sun is also dangerous because it greatly increases your risk of the three most common types of kin cancer including basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma.
Sun Protection and Skin Care
- Be smart out in the sun and enjoy safe sun. Wear sun protective clothing when outdoors. Be sure to protect your scalp if you have any thinning or balding areas with a hat. And protect your eyes as well with sunglasses that block out 99 to 100% of UV rays
- Apply a sun protection product that provides broad-spectrum protection from UVA and UVB rays and that has a sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 or higher. Products that contain zinc oxide 3.5% or higher applied to all sun-exposed skin areas every day is recommended.
- Daily use of a topical anti-oxidant vitamin C to the face and sun exposed skin daily will help boost the skin's ability to fight sun damage and will significantly reduce your risk of skin cancer.