PostsWhen you’re pregnant, it can be a struggle to feel pretty. As you watch your belly expand, your ankles swell into sausages, and your boobs blow up like balloons, you wonder if you’ll ever be enticing again. You can do some things to improve your look, which includes attractive garments and fab looking hair and make-up, but if you’re pregnant during the summer months, you may wonder if it’s safe for you to do any sun-tanning during pregnancy.
Nobody wants to harm their baby, and that is possible even before it is born if you subject it to the incorrect circumstances. Although the general public only think in terms of tanning beds being damaging to their unborn baby, it is really just one of the things to think about before attempting to achieve that sun-bronzed glow.
Let’s commence with tanning beds in our discussion of tanning during pregnancy. Although there is no proof that the beds themselves are dangerous to the baby, there is evidence that inappropriate heat can cause spinal defects. In addition, there were studies which have linked UV rays with a deficiency in folic acid. Folic acid is extremely important, particularly during the first trimester, in preventing neural tube effects, such as spina bifida.
On top of the things that tanning beds can do to your baby, you also have to consider the damage it can do to you. During pregnancy, your entire body chemistry changes. Your skin is more at the mercy of burning and to the development of unpleasant dark splotches and skin cancers.
Getting a tan out on the beach or outside in general has the same hazards as those due to tanning beds. Too much heat, fragile skin exposed to the elements with higher chances of bad burns and staining, and UV rays are just as bad when due to the sun as they are by artificial rays, so it’s best to limit your sun exposure as long as you’re pregnant. Even after pregnancy, you’ll still be smart to bypass the UV rays which cause cancer of the skin.
After controlling out tanning beds and time spent in the sun, that leaves the option of getting a tan from a bottle which appears to be the best alternative if you really feel you need to get a tan. Even so, many physicians believe that you’re better off waiting at least till the end of your first trimester to use chemical tanning products, because noone really knows if the chemicals will penetrate the skin and do the baby harm. Tanning during pregnancy just isn’t the best idea.
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