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[baby-come-fly-with-me]

being a qualified beauty therapist, i find this story to be very sad. To think the child has got to be extremly careful and avoid the sun for whopping 10 years just goes to prove the risks she could face as a result for using the sunbed. Who do you think is to blame..the girls mum, the or the salon assistant?..........A 10-year-old schoolgirl suffered 70% burns after a 16-minute session at an unmanned tanning studio, it has been revealed.
The child's mother is now demanding that all unmanned salons are shut down as a matter of urgency.

Kelly Thompson was taken to hospital a few hours after leaving the tanning shop in Port Talbot, South Wales.

Medics at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, where she was treated, were horrified at her condition.

Had she remained on the sunbed for another two minutes, they said she would have needed skin grafts.

Kelly has now been warned to keep out of direct sunlight for up to 10 years.
Her mother, Sharon Hannaford, 34, said the incident happened during the Easter school holidays.

"I gave Kelly some money to go to the fair with her cousin but when they got there, it was closed," she said.

"As they came back, they saw the tanning salon and went in, more out of curiosity than anything."

Mrs Hannaford said Kelly spent £8 feeding the unmanned sunbed
When she came home, she laid down and didn't feel too good and I noticed that she was a bit red in the face.

"Over about the next three hours she became really red and was feeling cold, although she was burning up. In the end I had to take her to hospital."

The story emerged on the day the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued new safety guidelines governing sunbeds.

The HSE is advising that nobody under the age of 18 should use such tanning facilities at all.

It also wants all tanning salons to be supervised by trained staff - even if a salon is all coin-operated.

[lioness 2]

I agree and think all tanning places should have trained/experienced staff. None should be unmanned as things like the above will always happen. Young girls will go into these places as they are trying to be like their idiots (oops sorry idols) like Jordan, Posh and Cheryl Cole etc. So until the staff/young girls are educated nothing will change. Perhaps huge fines would help stop this happening - Who knows.

[purdey]

Never really understood the why honkies want to change colour. The majority are as white as milk until mid June and then lobster fever takes over.
Sun beds should be banned, there is enough evidence out there to tag them as 'harmful to health'.

[lioness 2]

Never really understood the why honkies want to change colour. The majority are as white as milk until mid June and then lobster fever takes over.
Sun beds should be banned, there is enough evidence out there to tag them as 'harmful to health'.

Its like all things that are bad for us - We seem to want it more. I love the quote white as milk then lobster red - Bang on target

[baby-come-fly-with-me]

WTF is a "why honkie"?????

[baby-come-fly-with-me]

I agree and think all tanning places should have trained/experienced staff. None should be unmanned as things like the above will always happen. Young girls will go into these places as they are trying to be like their idiots (oops sorry idols) like Jordan, Posh and Cheryl Cole etc. So until the staff/young girls are educated nothing will change. Perhaps huge fines would help stop this happening - Who knows.

its defo down to the staff who were manning the salon.
as a result of carelessness this child now faces the majority if not the rest of her life at high risk of cancer.
Because she burnt the way she did there is a possibility she has a genetic disorder called XP which is short for xeroderma pigmentosum, basically means these sufferers are extremly sensitive to sunlight and over exposure to uv rays can cause cancer from an early age.
The person who allowed this child on the sun bed should be charged for sure.
I mean these killer beds cost like £4.00 or something, was it really worth it.

[baby-come-fly-with-me]

I agree and think all tanning places should have trained/experienced staff. None should be unmanned as things like the above will always happen. Young girls will go into these places as they are trying to be like their idiots (oops sorry idols) like Jordan, Posh and Cheryl Cole etc. So until the staff/young girls are educated nothing will change. Perhaps huge fines would help stop this happening - Who knows.

its defo down to the staff who were manning the salon.
as a result of carelessness this child now faces the majority if not the rest of her life at high risk of cancer.
Because she burnt the way she did there is a possibility she has a genetic disorder called XP which is short for xeroderma pigmentosum, basically means these sufferers are extremly sensitive to sunlight and over exposure to uv rays can cause cancer from an early age.
The person who allowed this child on the sun bed should be charged for sure.
I mean these killer beds cost like £4.00 or something, was it really worth it.

And an unmanned tanning studio is rubbish, more like they were out the back having a cig break. either that or they didnt care.

[purdey]

Typo, sorry. It should read "why Honkies", savvy ?

[baby-come-fly-with-me]

Typo, sorry. It should read "why Honkies", savvy ?

SPEAK UP will you, what does "why honkie" mean and why did you say it?

[baby-come-fly-with-me]

Typo, sorry. It should read "why Honkies", savvy ?

SPEAK UP will you, what does "why honkie" mean and why did you say it?

Whats HONKIES?