
The deadly tan jab: DIY injection promises instant all-over tan but as these women discovered, it can trigger heart disease and cancer
Starved of sunshine over the winter and desperate for a healthy glow, Terri Sotherton, 21, sat at her computer screen four weeks ago looking for a cheap and easy way to get a perfect all-over tan.
She didn?t have to look far. Type the words ?quick tanning? into Google and the first three online companies to come up offer cheap deals on tanning accelerators in the form of creams, pills ? and even injections.
Terri, from Bolton, bought three doses of a product called Melanotan for ?25. On the website, it was claimed these one-milligram injections would make her browner faster than if she went on a sunbed or sunbathed.
Yet the truth is very different. Chemicals in the products make the skin more sensitive to ultraviolet light by making our cells much more reactive.
In response, we produce more brown pigment ? melatonin ? more quickly. The results can be dangerously disfiguring, as Terri and other women have found to their cost.
?As soon as I had the injection, there was an intense wave of nausea. I felt as if my legs couldn?t hold me up. I had to cling on to the furniture,? she says. Her ?25 parcel, bought over the internet, arrived without paperwork. ?It is the most stupid thing I have ever done,? she says. ?I was surprised that there weren?t any instructions, but I thought a company couldn?t possibly be so irresponsible as to send out a product that could do you any physical harm.?

There you are the fastest way to get suntan for dk members.
. All the women that were classed as the prettier ones when I was a pup did the sunbed routine, now that they are in their 40s everyone to a T looks like they're in their 50s and one would pass for her mum. The sad thing for some of them is they are now single and have always valued looks, sometimes this was the cause of their failed relationships and now they are at the stage where they are being judged on their looks and it's biting them on the bum.

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