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I wish I could find the article and I'd post a link, but I read somewhere recently that people are catching herpes from tanning beds. Something about the virus mutating and becoming more resistant to cleaners because if the UV light and the tiny cracks in the acrylic. I have no idea how true this is, but I was considering fake baking again and it totally turned me off.

The UV rays in the tanning beds make asymptomatic herpes (HSV2) symptomatic again. One must be already infected. HSV2, otherwise known as genital herpes, can and does present anywhere between the bellybutton and the knees. Most people who have HSV2 don't know they have it, have never experienced symptoms, or have had symptoms so mild they never realized it was a herpes infection. Especially if it wasn't on the genitals, which is common. The UV rays have a knack of making the symptoms appear when an infected area is exposed to the tanning rays, and the blisters often present more aggressively.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1323616

Ewwwww.......

I mean, just think of all the sweaty naked bodies that have been pressed against that acrylic and then you lay on it too. What's really in the cleaners they use? There's no standard. I used to tan all the time and I swear some places just used windex. And not exactly scrubbing, just the swipe of a dirty rag.

You didn't clean it before laying down? The place I go cleans them after every customer, but there's also wipes in there for us to use if we would like (usually Clorox wipes or similar).

It's been many years ago that I tanned and as I remember at the place I went to, they cleaned them before you used them. No cleaners were kept in the rooms.

Plus usually some young one sitting at counter I don’t think it’s the most regulated of business sectors.