Teaching sun safety to kids is vital for their lifelong health and happiness. Sun safety is essential for preventing skin cancer and other conditions with potentially severe consequences. Avoiding these issues is the number one reason to know sun safety practices and teach them to your children.
When was the last time you came in for a skin checkup? If it’s not been relatively recently, then you’re probably due to an appointment. Making sure your skin is healthy is just as important as getting your annual physical, or biannual checkups from your dentist. To achieve an optimum state of health, your whole body needs to be healthy – which, of course, includes your skin!
May is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, there’s no better time to have a talk about skin cancer.
Summer is right around the corner which means that in just a few short months you’ll be spending those long summer afternoons outside – at the pool, in the garden, on a tennis court or golf course, or whatever else it is that you LOVE to do once that warm weather finally hits.
With the help and guidance of an experienced medical professional, skin cancer no longer needs to be as scary and confusing as it once was.
Ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun’s radiation still damages the DNA in your skin, the biggest contributor to skin cancer, in the winter months. Sunburn and skin damage are not just summertime things.